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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c6e393e.1000...@hardwarefreak.com