[ltp] ata_piix on a t42p

[Carlos Moffat]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 21:03 +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> does the kernel detect your drive? (boot messages?)
> 

How I would I know that? It does some stuff before the kernel panic, so
it would seem that at least finds /boot, but I'm not sure.

Carlos

> 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