[ltp] Problems with piix and kernel 2.6.19

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:28:36 +0200


On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 21:04:14 +0200, Guillermo Juárez wrote:
> Starting with kernel 2.6.19 I have had problems with my hd. In the
> kernel config the SATA and PATA option have been moved, and maybe I'm
> just selecting the wrong options, but before I could work with my
> hardrive in "compatibility mode" and now I have to do it with AHCI.
> 
> The piix support is selected in the kernel, but I always get an error
> booting that says no hd to boot from exists.

2.6.19-rc1 introduced new libata features to unify access to PATA and
SATA drives. The SATA drivers are also moved out of drivers/scsi. I can
imagine that a lot of config options were renamed in this process and
you just forgot to re-enable the right things.

Regards,
Tino