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Re: How to build a kernel which boots from SATA?



> On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 10:25:39PM +0200, Michael Bienia wrote:
>> options are wrong. So I tried to build a new kernel (2.6.8-rc2) but I
>> didn't get it to boot from my SATA disk. The installed kernel
>> (2.6.7-5-amd64-k8-smp) boots fine (module is sata_via).
>
> Maybe you also have an other module for it?  sata_via makes it
> /dev/sda while there is a driver (forgot it's name) that makes it
> /dev/hde.

On my Asus K8V SE I can get either /dev/sda or /dev/hde with the sata_via
module. This seems to depend on which kernel I load. On 2.4 it is sda, on
2.6 it is hde.

regards,
Thomas



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