Re: Problems booting from SATA in a HP DC5750 (ATI SB600 ?) - ****Solved ?****
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:33:40PM -0300, Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe wrote:
> Great!!! Kernel 2.6.21-r6 from
> kernel-archive.buildserver.net/debian-kernel/ does the trick.
> Thank you very much, Len. I had some trouble to figure out a suitable
> sources.list line
> (got it with Google - see
> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=12430) for that particular
> repository (is there a howto on this somewhere?), but suceeded today,
> and got no errors at boot.
>
> Now I am a bit concerned about deploying 20 or so *production* boxes
> with an experimental
> kernel. Maybe I should try to patch and build 2.6.18 instead. Any comments?
2.6.18 to 2.6.21 is a big jump to backport stuff for. Lots of SATA
changes. But if the change that is important is small, it might be
doable. Lucky for me I don't buy machines with ATI hardware in them
beacuse it is usaully such a pain under Linux.
--
Len Sorensen
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