On 26 July 2010 15:11, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > On Monday 26 July 2010 12:02:56 Mick wrote: > >> Another gotcha is when you disable the deprecated CONFIG_IDE in the >> kernel and you don't update your grub.conf and /etc/fstab to rename >> /dev/hda's into /dev/sda's. > > Drifting off topic somewhat, when I upgraded udev on my firewall box last > week I was told I shouldn't have CONFIG_IDE set, so I recompiled the > kernel without it and lo! a kernel panic during boot. And yes, I had > changed hdas to sdas. > > So udev is wrong in saying CONFIG_IDE should not be set - on that old P4 > box it has to be to get ICH4 drivers.
Hmm, did you try ATA_PIIX, or PATA_MPIIX, or PATA_SCH? Also, make sure you enable BLK_DEV_SR, for some reason I could get a box to boot without it. The box in question is an ancient PIII Coppermine! -- Regards, Mick
