From: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ide boot failure 2.6.36/2.6.28 - 2.6.27 works
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:28:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101120032828.GA14693@iq> (raw)
Answering myself (and providing info that can be Googled):
> 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.
A typical error would be
Cannot open root device 342 or unknown block (3,66)
Reading the code shows that the default probing is no longer done.
Editing ./drivers/ide/ide-generic.c and changing
-static int probe_mask;
+static int probe_mask = 3;
returns my disks to life, and this old machine boots again.
Andries
next reply other threads:[~2010-11-20 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-20 3:28 Andries E. Brouwer [this message]
2010-11-20 7:45 ` ide boot failure 2.6.36/2.6.28 - 2.6.27 works Borislav Petkov
2010-11-20 12:11 ` Andries E. Brouwer
2010-11-20 13:04 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-21 1:29 ` Andries E. Brouwer
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2010-11-20 2:15 Andries E. Brouwer
2010-11-20 2:59 ` Justin P. Mattock
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