Re: [Cooker] kernel-2.6.25-1mnb - a standard install fails to boot

[Olivier Blin]

Dick Gevers <dvgevers@xs4all.nl> writes:

> When I do a normal install of the kernel-server with 'rpm -ivh', this kernel
> fails to boot for me.
>
> I see a partial dmesg ending with:
>
> Loading piix module

Is it loading any other modules before this one?
What's the root= option on your bootloader command line?

> My hardware requires the ata_piix module:
> lspcidrake -v |grep piix:
> ata_piix        : Intel Corporation|82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller
> [STORAGE_IDE] (vendor:8086 device:24db subv:1043 subd:80a6

It is also supported by the piix module.
$ /sbin/modinfo piix | grep -i 24DB
alias:          pci:v00008086d000024DBsv*sd*bc*sc*i*

Though, in current cooker, we have switched to libata PATA modules,
piix should not have been used. Maybe we'd need the kernel package to
require a recent version of ldetect-lst.

If you rebuild initrd for this kernel, does it fix the issue?
(please backup the old initrd first)

> but I have no pata/sata disks, only IDE disks.

IDE disks are PATA disks.

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Olivier Blin (blino) - Mandriva