Hi,
Sorry if I'm duplicating the issue, but I've searched the list and didn't find
a similar report. I've just compiled 2.6.20-rc4 and I have trouble booting.
After some investigation, I find out that my IDE chipset is being discovered
as SATA, so my hard drive is not /dev/hda, but /dev/sda. When I passed the
correct root=/dev/sdaX option to the kernel, it booted fine and everything
seems to be working. But it puzzles me why, this motherboard doesn't even
have a SATA chipset. Is this abug or a new feature? :) My IDE chipset is:
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
Regards,
DImitar G. Katerinski
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On 01/08/2007 02:44 PM, Dimitar G. Katerinski wrote:
> After some investigation, I find out that my IDE chipset is being discovered
> as SATA, so my hard drive is not /dev/hda, but /dev/sda.
It seems you compiled in support for "PATA", more specifically for:
> 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
"<*> AMD/NVidia PATA support (Experimental)"
in the "Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers" menu
under "Device Drivers". PATA is what is also known as IDE and the PATA
drivers are a new set of IDE drivers, using the same infrastructure as
SCSI and SATA (and USB, and ..). Yes, they're newly integrated in
2.6.20. One of the advatages of these new drivers are better error
handling than the old IDE driver.
I'm using that same specific driver by the way (on amd756) and it's
working very nicely for me.
Rene.