Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-18 Thread Colin
Peter Thomassen wrote: > I already knew that, but according to the manufacturer's specification, it's > not an S-ATA drive, but an UDMA-100 drive. That's why I firstly didn't take > that into account. > > Is this possible at all? Or does it mean that either the model number or the > specification

Re: SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
Bill Smith wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: So, SATA drives will 'just work' with a 2.6.x kernel? I am running testing here on a 200G sata drive on an Asus P5P800 no problems at all, though strangely grub would not install, but lilo did, so it is fine. It is an Intel ICH5 controller. Thanks to al

Re: SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-18 Thread Bill Smith
Marc Shapiro wrote: Wackojacko wrote: AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 kernels deal with SATA drives. 2.4 used ide/scsi emulation so the appeared as IDE drives, i.e. 'h'da etc. 2.6 has native SATA support and thus the drives are 's'da etc. So, SATA drives

Re: SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-17 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006, Marc Shapiro wrote: So, SATA drives will 'just work' with a 2.6.x kernel? I'm running SATA (1) on: * ASUS av7600 (non-native) * Intel 945/ICH7 (native) * Intel other (powered off at the moment) In general, things just work... you may have to tell y

Re: SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-17 Thread Wackojacko
Marc Shapiro wrote: Wackojacko wrote: AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 kernels deal with SATA drives. 2.4 used ide/scsi emulation so the appeared as IDE drives, i.e. 'h'da etc. 2.6 has native SATA support and thus the drives are 's'da etc. So, SATA drives

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-17 Thread Wackojacko
Peter Thomassen wrote: Wackojacko schrieb am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 10:48: The problem has been solved. My friend uses a Samsung MP0804H (?) harddisc, whose device file had change from hda to sda with 2.6. :-) AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 kernels deal w

SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Wackojacko wrote: AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 kernels deal with SATA drives. 2.4 used ide/scsi emulation so the appeared as IDE drives, i.e. 'h'da etc. 2.6 has native SATA support and thus the drives are 's'da etc. So, SATA drives will 'just work' with

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Thomassen
Wackojacko schrieb am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 10:48: >> The problem has been solved. My friend uses a Samsung MP0804H (?) >> harddisc, whose device file had change from hda to sda with 2.6. :-) > > AFAIK, this is just due to the difference between how 2.4 and 2.6 > kernels deal with SATA drive

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-17 Thread Wackojacko
Peter Thomassen wrote: Hi! The problem has been solved. My friend uses a Samsung MP0804H (?) harddisc, whose device file had change from hda to sda with 2.6. :-) Is there a list of harddisc involved in this change? Maybe, there should be some easy-to-find info on this (perhaps in a Wiki, don't

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-17 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hi! The problem has been solved. My friend uses a Samsung MP0804H (?) harddisc, whose device file had change from hda to sda with 2.6. :-) Is there a list of harddisc involved in this change? Maybe, there should be some easy-to-find info on this (perhaps in a Wiki, don't know if one exists). Pet

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-15 Thread Peter Thomassen
Kent West schrieb am Samstag, 16. September 2006 01:23: > What filesystem was used? ext2,3, reiser, etc ext3. > What are the partitions on the drive? Before Linux installation: 1 NTFS 2 NTFS 3 NTFS After: 1 NTFS 2 ext3 3 swap 4 NTFS (The numbers don't correspond to the partition numbers in /

Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-15 Thread Kent West
Peter Thomassen wrote: Hello, I helped a friend of mine with installing Debian by phone, that's why my diagnostic possibilities are shortened. After downloading the stable netinst CD, we installed sarge (using Kernel 2.4.27 or so). Then, we modified sources.list to use testing in the future and

2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-15 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hello, I helped a friend of mine with installing Debian by phone, that's why my diagnostic possibilities are shortened. After downloading the stable netinst CD, we installed sarge (using Kernel 2.4.27 or so). Then, we modified sources.list to use testing in the future and did an apt-get dist-upgr

2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem

2006-09-15 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hello, I helped a friend of mine with installing Debian by phone, that's why my diagnostic possibilities are shortened. After downloading the stable netinst CD, we installed sarge (using Kernel 2.4.27 or so). Then, we modified sources.list to use testing in the future and did an apt-get dist-upgr