[ltp] ata_piix on a t42p

[Carlos Moffat]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 08:48 -0400, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 09:38 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Mihai C??lin Bazon wrote:
> > > Make sure you enable AHCI in your BIOS; otherwise the HDD will be in
> > > backward compatibility mode (/dev/hda instead of /dev/sda).
> > 
> > No AHCI, (or SATA for that matter) in a T42, AFAIK. T43 has non-AHCI SATA in
> > BIOS, and AHCI if you *really* screw with the chipset.  T60 and newer have
> > AHCI in BIOS.
> > 
> 
> You're right.
> 
> > It is probably the old IDE modules still loading before ata_piix, or
> > ata_piix being a module and not in the initrd, etc.
> 
> Mmmh. I unset all the IDE stuff to make sure this wouldn't happen, but I
> guess I still might need initrd, or something.
> 
> Thanks,
> Carlos


I'm compiling my kernel with:

 make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=.070806 kernel_image
modules_image

and I no longer get a pernel panic, but the boot process just stops. Any
ideas? Anybody has a working .config I could borrow?

Thanks,
Carlos


> 
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>