From: "Justin P. Mattock" <justinmattock@gmail.com>
To: "Andries E. Brouwer" <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Cc: 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: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:59:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CE739A6.6070306@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101120021515.GA3277@iq>
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
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probably best to bisect if you can..
Justin P. Mattock
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-20 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-20 2:15 ide boot failure 2.6.36/2.6.28 - 2.6.27 works Andries E. Brouwer
2010-11-20 2:59 ` Justin P. Mattock [this message]
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2010-11-20 3:28 Andries E. Brouwer
2010-11-20 7:45 ` 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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