Hi, I would like to try out the 2.6 kernel, but was never able to install it on my new hardware.
It seems that this time the problem I'm running into is that the initrd image loads a _SCSI_ driver for my _IDE_ SATA controller. I read some stories about solving this by changing the order of drivers (generating a custom initrd image which first loads the IDE driver). Before diving into that I thought to ask you... I've included the boot log (I copied it by hand) at the end of this email. I use the following boot stanza in GRUB: title Debian 2.6.5-1-686-smp kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1-686-smp root=/dev/hde6 devfs=mount hdc=ide-cd vga=794 initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.5-1-686-smp I'm not sure what the correct entry in GRUB is. When I install the kernel image with apt-get install it offers to install a lilo boot sector which I refuse. so I am guessing the correct parameters in GRUB... Thanks for any advice - I really want to try out 2.6! My hardware: ASUS P4P800 motherboard with intel ICH5 SATA controller Maxtor 120 GB SATA HD The boot log as copied from the screen: Mounted devfs on /dev Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 160 k freed initd-tools: 0.1.165 modprobe -k ide-core options= "hdc=ide-cd" ide_core: Unknown parameter `"options' FATAL: Error inserting ide_core (/lib/modules/2.6.5-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-core.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) vesafb [...] [...] NET: Registered protocol family 1 SCSI subsystem initialized ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEFE0 ctl 0xEFAE bmdma 0xEF60 irq18 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xEFA0 ctl 0xEFAA bmdma 0xEF68 irq18 ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 240121728 sectors ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133 scsi0 : ata_piix ata2: SATA port has no device. disabling. scs1 : ata_piix Using anticipatory io scheduler Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y120M0 Rev: 1.02 Type: Direct-access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sda: 240121728 512-bye hdwe sectors (122942 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 > p3 attached scsi disd sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33 MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hdc: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-708A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 mount: /dev/root2 is not a valid block device mount: /dev/root2 is not a valid block device mount: you must specify the filesystem type /scripts/ext3-add-journal.sh: 30: cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: No such file /scripts/ext3-add-journal.sh: 30: cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: No such file mount: /dev/root2 is not a valid block device mount: /dev/root2 is not a valid block device mount: you must specify the filesystem type mount: mount point dev does not exist pivot_root: No such file or directory /sbin/init: 348: cannot open dev/console: No such file Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! _
