-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Geirnaert wrote: > Hi Gustin, > > > ls /dev | grep sd gives me only > > sda > > sdb > > sdc > > These are the flash card usb type of drives I have, so there's no hard > > disk available. > > > Are we talking about SSDs, USB flash devices, or compact flash cards in > PATA adaptors? > > > I think it's compact flash cards in PATA adaptors we're talking about. > lsusb in the working Ubuntu shows me a "Standard Microsystems Corp. > 9-in-2 Card Reader" > and there are ports on the desktop computer's front panel to insert CF, > MS/SD/MMC and SM/XD cards. > This should not appear any differently than a PATA hard drive. This does not make a lot of sense given that you are using a laptop with a SATA hard drive interface. I also get the sense that you have a working install of Ubuntu?
> There's also a docking port with 3 connections on the top of the > computer to connect a MEDION external eSATA drive, > but there's no external disk connected to it, so I don't think that's > one of the sd's > I also didn't connect no usb disk or memory stick. > That explains the all the sd devices with no partitions. The card reader will present each slot as a device, but with no partitions until a media card with a partition is inserted. > Also, how are you able to do an ls on /dev? How are you > booting this machine to see this? > > When the machine boots, it first loads GRUB. > 64Studio is the default kernel in the list because it's the last distro > I installed. > When I choose 64studio to boot, I first get the error warning: > PCI: BIOS Bug : MCFG area at e0000000 is not E820-reserved > PCI: Not using MMCONFIG > Loading please wait.... > _ (blinking underscore for a while) Update your BIOS. > > Then I get the same ase Dave reported: > Check root= bootargs cat /proc/cmdline or missing modules, devices: cat > /proc/modules ls /dev. > (initramfs) > > here I do ls /dev > > I would also be interested in the output of the following: > > for each in `ls /dev/*` ; do parted $each print ; done > > You may need root privileges for that command. > > OK, I will try that now, but I don't think root privileges will be needed > because there's no user logged in yet, it's "busybox", (initramfs), > what's the correct name for that "application" ? > Oh that command I have only tested under bash, it probably won't work with busybox. > > 64Studio 3 > alpha uses 2.6.21 and the latest Ubuntu kernel is 2.6.27-9.19 I suspect > that the newer udev/hotplug userspace apps that ship with Ubuntu may be > acting weirdly with such an old kernel. > > > So if I understand this correctly, to get it working, > these userspace apps should be modified/rewritten to work also with the > older kernel, No, these apps work hand in hand with the more recent kernels. The solution is one of two things; First option is to build a more recent kernel (I have had a reasonably good experience with the 2.6.24 and rt25 patch. The second is to wait for an RT patch to 2.6.28. Your hardware is not well supported by the 2.6.21 kernel anyway. > for 64studio and other distro's who still depend on the 2.6.21 kernel. > Or use some sort of adaptor or "protocol" convertor ? > 64Studio 3.0 is an *Alpha* release after all. I do not expect it to be released with a 2.6.21, it is simply what it is using at this stage of development. Also, depending on an old kernel is a bad idea for many reasons. It is unfortunate for us multimedia types that there are currently RT problems with the last few kernels, but the changes being made are important within the big picture. > Anyway, I'll try the for each in 'ls /dev ... thing now .. Look in /var/log/dmesg for each of those /dev/sd devices. It may give you more information. At this point my best guess is that the 2.6.21 kernel does not have complete or bugfree drivers for your chipset. hth, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklj0KAACgkQwRXgH3rKGfN9xQCZAV2DumbFu1RnkPtGjYJxjg01 l/8AniF7G3mNUKZ15o+FoQQLfNG+Tgw/ =DbiG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
