From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262092AbTJMXZW (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:25:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262095AbTJMXZW (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:25:22 -0400 Received: from ale.atd.ucar.edu ([128.117.80.15]:39663 "EHLO ale.atd.ucar.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262092AbTJMXZS (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 19:25:18 -0400 From: "Charles Martin" To: Cc: Subject: how to build a working 2.6 kernel with SATA Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:25:12 -0600 Message-ID: <006d01c391e1$4356b190$c3507580@atdsputnik> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I am trying to build a bootable 2.6 kernel for a Dell 8300, which has both the onboard ICH5 SATA controller and a PCI Promise S150 SATA controller. Two drives are connected to the Promise card, configured for mirroring. I've installed RH9, using the proprietary driver from Promise. I've been working with 2.6.0-test7. I apply the test7-bk2 patch, followed by the test7-bk2-libata patch. This is followed by the standard make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install && make install. Note that I have to comment out scsi_hostadapter in /etc/modules.conf in order for the mkinitrd to succeed during "make install". I can't seem to get a kernel and initrd combination built that will boot. I have seen a variety of boot problems, but they usually seem to be related to a failure trying to mount the root file system. For instance, the boot gives the error "error 6 mounting ext3" when trying to mount the root filesystem. Pivotroot then fails after this. I've tried several permutations on having the serial ata built-in, versus a module, with varying but always negative results. Perhaps there is a key step that I am not aware of? Does my procedure sound correct? Thanks, Charlie