Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?

[Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:41, Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 05:31:21 +1030
>
> Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday, 18 February 2007 5:25, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote:
> > > Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6.
> > > When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding
> > > (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new
> > > in 2.6.19 that causes this? What's the solution ? Help welcome.
> > >
> > > --
> > > ~adj~
> >
> > It's probably due to the SATA drivers being moved out of the SCSI
> > section of menuconfig, which iirc, changed their CONFIG names.
> >
> > You should double check that all your required drivers have been
> > configured.
>
> I tried kernel 2.19 and the new libata PATA drivers and all seemed to
> work fine, execpt I too got the same kernel panic with not
> finding /dev/hd[a-z][0-9]+.  I think the names of these device nodes
> might have changed?  I'm not sure but my theory is that if i would have
> used the older ATA drivers instead, things would have been fine.
>
> People _Are_ running the 2.6.19 kernels successfully.

The new libata PATA drivers put your hdds under /dev/sd* and your cdroms 
under /dev/sr* rather than /dev/hd*. So you'll have to either reconfigure 
your kernel to use the regular IDE drivers or fix all mention of /dev/hd* to 
the correct /dev/sd* device.

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Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
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