Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:59:50 -0800 | From | "Justin P. Mattock" <> | Subject | Re: ide boot failure 2.6.36/2.6.28 - 2.6.27 works |
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On 11/19/2010 06:15 PM, Andries E. Brouwer wrote: > In case anybody is still interested in this old IDE stuff: > I wanted to boot a recent kernel on an old machine and failed. > The last kernel that worked was 2.6.27. > What goes wrong is that the disks are no longer detected on 2.6.28. > I see that 2.6.28 had a lot of changes in this area. > Maybe this just needs a new boot option I overlooked. > (Or is oldfashioned IDE considered broken these days?) > > Google gives me many people with the same problem > (e.g., http://bugs.gentoo.org/253628) but no remedy. > I have not looked at the code yet. > > Andries > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
probably best to bisect if you can..
Justin P. Mattock
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