On Friday 20 August 2010 12:18:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > 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. -- 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/201008212202.28664.d_ba...@012.net.il
