Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 23 aug 10, 07:20:25, Stephen Powell wrote: > > in /etc/lilo.conf. Note that there is another symlink which also points to > ../../sda. It starts with "scsi". You don't want to use that one, because > it only exists when using the libata drivers. The one which starts with "ata" > will ex

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:13:56 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: > > Thanks. This, of course, simply reeds of the /dev/disk/by-uuid symlinks. > These only refer to partitions, but the boot= goes to disk MBR, i.e. /dev/hda > or /dev/sda without any partition number. How do I get that one? To obtain t

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-23 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 22 August 2010 20:51:07 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > LVM Uses such a system quite nicely. Question is where I get the UUID's > > for the two items not in LVM, the /boot and the /root? (Got to get this > > right the first try ... ) > > blkid(8) in package util-

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 22 aug 10, 19:04:19, David Baron wrote: > > LVM Uses such a system quite nicely. Question is where I get the UUID's for > the two items not in LVM, the /boot and the /root? (Got to get this right the > first try ... ) blkid(8) in package util-linux > (Such a system should be quite movea

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-22 Thread David Baron
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:39:15 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: > > Googling found the second alternative. The new sda names are for ALL > > hard disks, SATA, IDE, SCSI, no matter. > > > > > > > > So there seems to be no way to keep the two variations, i.e. kernels > > using the deprecated and th

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-08-22 12:39 +0200, David Baron wrote: > Googling found the second alternative. The new sda names are for ALL hard > disks, SATA, IDE, SCSI, no matter. > > So there seems to be no way to keep the two variations, i.e. kernels using > the > deprecated and the new PATA around. fstab must us

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 06:39:15 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: > Googling found the second alternative. The new sda names are for ALL hard > disks, SATA, IDE, SCSI, no matter. > > So there seems to be no way to keep the two variations, i.e. kernels using > the > deprecated and the new PATA around

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-22 Thread David Baron
On Friday 20 August 2010 10:04:54 David Baron wrote: > I built this kernel for first time with new PATA rather than the old > deprecated drivers. These are compiled-in, no initrd. Get cannot find block > error, [2,22] or something like that. > > Possibilities: > 1. Need to compile in VIA's driver

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-21 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:02:26 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: > > The MB of the current machine is an older "AOpen" with a VIA chipset. > The new one will be a Winsonic with Intel chipset. That has both SATA and IDE > and my current disks will be placed on the IDE as now. I don't have any first-h

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-21 Thread David Baron
On Friday 20 August 2010 12:18:11 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > I built this kernel for first time with new PATA rather than the old > > deprecated drivers. These are compiled-in, no initrd. Get cannot find > > block error, [2,22] or something like that. > > > > > > > >

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-21 Thread Ingo Kasten
Am 20.08.2010 09:30, schrieb David Baron: I built this kernel for first time with new PATA rather than the old deprecated drivers. These are compiled-in, no initrd. Get cannot find block error, [2,22] or something like that. Possibilities: 1. Need to compile in VIA's driver as well. Not doing th

Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
David Baron put forth on 8/20/2010 2:04 AM: > I built this kernel for first time with new PATA rather than the old > deprecated drivers. These are compiled-in, no initrd. Get cannot find block > error, [2,22] or something like that. > > Possibilities: > 1. Need to compile in VIA's driver as well

2.34 Kernel Won't Boot

2010-08-20 Thread David Baron
I built this kernel for first time with new PATA rather than the old deprecated drivers. These are compiled-in, no initrd. Get cannot find block error, [2,22] or something like that. Possibilities: 1. Need to compile in VIA's driver as well. Not doing this prevented DMA access using deprecated