Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot
On Friday 20 August 2010 12:18:11 debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org
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> > 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#.
The MB of the current machine is an older "AOpen" with a VIA chipset.
The new one will be a Winsonic with Intel chipset. That has both SATA and IDE
and my current disks will be placed on the IDE as now.
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