[ltp] ata_piix on a t42p

[Florian Reitmeir]

Hi,

does the kernel detect your drive? (boot messages?)

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007, Carlos Moffat wrote:

> I have a t42p and I'm trying to make the switch to the ata_piix drivers
> by following the instructions:
> 
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_and_use_libata_SATA_/_PATA_drivers
> 
> I have: 
> 
> * recompiled the kernel (2.6.22)
> * changed /etc/fstab to use labels 
> * changed /boot/grub/menu.lst and switched /dev/hda1 to /dev/sda1 for
> this kernel. It reads:
> 
> root=/dev/sda1 ro acpi_sleep=s3_bios atapi_enabled=1
> 
> 
> When I reboot, I get a kernel panic:
> 
> cannot open root device "sda1" or unknown-block(0,0)
> 
> (or something very similar). somebody in IRC suggested the problem might
> be the T42p chipset might not be supported. 
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas, or a working setup with this drivers and a
> t42p?
> 
> Thanks!
> Carlos
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Florian Reitmeir