Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot
David Baron put forth on 8/20/2010 2:04 AM:
> I built this kernel for first time with new PATA rather than the old
> deprecated drivers. These are compiled-in, no initrd. Get cannot find block
> error, [2,22] or something like that.
>
> Possibilities:
> 1. Need to compile in VIA's driver as well. Not doing this prevented DMA
> access using deprecated drivers a while back. I am doing this kernel for a
> new MB, not VIA chipset. Module is built.
>
> 2. New drivers assign different dev names. Need to change to newer name scheme
> in lilo.conf. If so, this will wait for new machine since this will render
> older kernel builds unusable. Current MB is an older IDE-based machine. The
> new MB will be SATA but has an IDE as well (and there are those adapters that
> plug in to the old disks to make them work like SATA).
>
> 3. Do not use 2.6.34. Has apparently been abandoned?
>
> Can anyone tell me what to do? (I hope the older kernels will boot on the new
> MB.) Thanks in advance.
It would help tremendously if you told us exactly which IDE chip(s) you have,
or your exact motherboard make/model#.
--
Stan
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