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Bug#287093: kernel-image-2.6-k7: kernel 2.6.8(-1-k7) fails to boot on VIA SATA system



Package: kernel-image-2.6-k7
Version: 100
Severity: important

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Hi,
i'm running Debian GNU/Linux testing (well, mostly) on a custom
PC:
AMD Athon 64 3000+,
Board is a GigaByte GA-K8VT800 Pro with Via VT8237
Serial ATA Controller and a Maxtor 6Y160M0 harddisk.

On boot the kernel fails to recognize the SATA interface and/or simply
to load the necessary driver ... result is a kernel panic.

There's an additional - but probably not really related - caveat:
On IA-32 SATA devices are addressed via their respective IDE devices,
whereas the AMD64 kernel uses SCSI devices ... it would be really,
really nice to have a CONSISTENT addressing scheme for all the different
architectures!
Sincerly,

Steffen Elste

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6-k7 depends on:
ii kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 2.6.8-10 Linux kernel image for version 2.6

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