Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 May 2006 22:39:18 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: need help booting from SATA in 2.4.32 |
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On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 04:31:52PM -0400, George Nychis wrote: > Hi, > > I've booted from a SATA drive in 2.4.32 before, but for some reason > 2.4.32 will not recognize this disk. It is recognized when I boot 2.6.9 > though. > > It uses the ata_piix module in both kernels. Whenever I boot 2.6.9 I see: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > SCSI subsystem initialized > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7 > ata: 0x170 IDE port busy > ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xBFA0 irq 14 > ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 78140160 sectors: > ata1(0): applying bridge limits > ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 > scsi0 : ata_piix > Vendor: ATA Model: FUJITSU MHV2040A Rev: 0000 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 > SCSI device sda: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB) > SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back > sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 > > Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@uk.sistina.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > However in 2.4.32 all i see is: > ---------------------------- > SCSI subsystem initialized > ---------------------------- > > I am positive that my 2.4.32 has been compiled with ata_piix as a > module, and it does reside in /lib/modules/2.4.32/kernel/driver/scsi/ > > Any clues?
Could you retry with it statically linked in the kernel ? I vaguely remember that if the original PIIX4 driver registers the device first, then ata_piix cannot get it. You could also ensure that you have properly removed CONFIG_IDE_PIIX4 (I believe it's called like this).
> Thanks! > George
Regards, Willy
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