Hi:
I have the following problem.
I am using a Gateway 700CX with a 160 GB Maxtor ATA hard drive which
uses SATA. I found that I could get the hard drive recognized only with
Knoppix 3.3, and I used knx-hdinstall to install sid on the hard drives
which are recognized as hde. The cd rom is recognized as sr0 and the
Iomega zip drive (750 MB) is recognized as sda. (Initially they are
recognized as hda (zip drive) hdb (maxtor) and hdc (cdrom) and then
they are reassigned. I was
using 2.4.22 kernel but the Zip drive is not recognized consistently,
with error messages like:
hdd: DMA interrupt recovery
hdd: lost inerrrupt
ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than expected -
discarding data
....
Occasionally it reads the drive but most of the time the zip drive is
useless. So I thought I would try kernel 2.6.0-test9. I compiled the
SCSI SATA into the kernel. I made a bzdisk. Now the Maxtor drive is
recognized as sdb, but it fails to boot giving a kernel panic that root
drive cannot be found. (Remember that I am compiling the kernel 2.6.0
when I am running 2.4.22 with /dev/hde2 as my root drive). Running rdev /dev/fd0 gives
0x3def. Trying to change it with rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/sdb2 gives a disk that will not
boot. When I try to change the root= to /dev/sdb2 in lilo.conf
and run lilo I get an error message saying that there is no such drive.
Is it possible to change from one kernel to another if the root drive is being changed
from /dev/hde2 to /dev/sdb2?
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Sebastian Canagaratna
Department of Chemistry
Ohio Northern University
Ada, OH 45810
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