On Tue, Dec 07, 2004, O Plameras wrote: > In the case of your original post I did not comment because I did not > have sufficient understanding of the issues. For example, what is the > linux kernel version you are trying to upgrade from ?
2.6.3, Debian kernel build. > What are the logical device names for this SATA device in the original > version of linux you are upgrading from ? /dev/hde > I assume you can do the above because you can boot off your original > system that is to be upgraded. I will try it, however I am less optimistic because the controller driver has changed: if I can't convince 2.6.8/9 to load the new driver before pivot_root, then it can't mount /. Pure speculation still, but fiddling around with the initrd is still looking like the best bet. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
