Ben Kelly wrote: > I ran into a similar problem when upgrading. It looked to me like the > SATA device configuration variables had been changed or renamed. This > caused me to lose all my SATA modules when I rebuilt. After I went in > and explicitly added the new SATA drivers into the config the machine > could boot again.
My policy is to upgrade kernel about every 6 months or at least before the version I'm using rolls off the supported kernel list. That said, this last upgrade to 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 was a little more than normal in the new SATA config variables. Googled, but couldn't find any explanation of them. So made best guess and just lucked out. Does anyone have a link to any documentation on the new variables? I use the recommended grub setup that works with "make install", so I would have the previous kernel to roll back to if necessary. For details see "Installing the kernel" in: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Compile_a_Kernel_Manually It's nice to have a safety net... HTH, Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
