Bug#432817: Harddisc changed from /dev/hda to sda from 2.6.18
Package: linux-image-2.6.21-2-k7
Version: 2.6.21-5
Severity: normal
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Dear Kernel-maintainers,
Today I tried to boot the new-in-testing linux-image-2.6.21-2-k7.
Before that I always booted linux-image-2.6.18-4-k7.
Unfortunately the boot process did not succeed, instead the following error message appeared:
Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
Begin: Running /scripts/localo-top ...
ide0: I/O resource 0x3F6-0x3F6 not free.
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide1: I/O resource 0x376-0x376 not free.
ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe
Done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...
>From this point on, the harddisc was active, but the boot process did not continue.
I found out that all I had to do was changing 'hda' into 'sda' in /etc/fstab and on the grub command line to boot this kernel.
Strangely the device names for my harddisc partitions seem to have changed from /dev/hda* to /dev/sda* during the kernel transition.
I consider this strange, because my machine has no SATA harddisc or similar (AFAICT), but only an ordinary IDE harddisc.
This is the output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 746 Host (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SG86C202
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS963 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 25)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus Controller
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
Problems like these should either be avoided or at least get documented somewhere.
Thanks for your effort!
Cheers,
Fabian
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7
Debian Release: lenny/sid
500 testing ftp2.de.debian.org
400 unstable ftp2.de.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
=======================================-+-===============
module-init-tools (>= 0.9.13) | 3.3-pre11-1
initramfs-tools (>= 0.55) | 0.88
OR yaird (>= 0.0.12-8) |
OR linux-initramfs-tool |
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