On Monday 22 December 2008 22:20, Rony wrote: > Hello, > > I have twice compiled kernel 2.6.27.8 from source. During make it > detects 5 problems but they don't look significant and 'make > CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y' resolves this problem. However > after booting from this kernel and its relative initrd.img, the > process stops at devfs and kernel panic. The system is unable to > read > /lib/modules/[kernel]/modules.dep. IMHO this is basically an > indicator of the ide drivers not working.
If IDE drivers are modules, they should be in initrd.img. Better just untar the source and overwrite. Then do make oldconfig. > > During make menuconfig, I observed that the IDE modules can only be > included as modules <M>, not 'in-built' in the kernel like <*>. In > one section, the Help contents even mention that this option should > not be used if your root system is on the IDE drive. This could > mean that while the booting drive is not IDE ( means SATA ), the > other drive detected after booting can be IDE. <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support ---> <*> Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support <*> Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support <*> generic/default IDE chipset support <*> PNP EIDE support <*> Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support <*> Intel PIIX/ICH chipsets support this should be * along with block devices. They can also be modules. But then you must include them in initrd.img by adding them in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and rebuilding the initrd.img. update-initramfs should do that. > My system is an Intel 845 with IDE drives. Has anyone on this list > successfully booted from 2.6.27.8 using an IDE HDD on an 845 > chipset mobo? Do the new kernels mean goodbye to old hardware? > Could this be one reason why K/Ubuntu 8.10 does not boot live into > an old 845 chipset + IDE system? 2.6.27.6 works on via 8237. no reason why it should not work on i845 -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
