From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Paul Rolland <rol@witbe.net>
Cc: "'Arjan van de Ven'" <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux 2.4.32] SATA ICH5/PIIX and Combined mode
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 02:57:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051223015752.GD27525@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512211140.jBLBeGD31936@tag.witbe.net>
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 12:40:18PM +0100, Paul Rolland wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > > I have a machine with two SATA HDD, and one PATA CDRom.
> > > Bios is configured for combined mode, and installing a RedHat ES3
> > > (Kernel 2.4.21-ELsmp) is fine, the two HDD are up, the installation
> > > is fine and the CDRom is working.
> > >
> > > Then, upgrading to a vanilla 2.4.32, the ata_piix.c file contains
> > > a "combined mode not supported" and booting the machine hangs, as
> > > no VFS are up for root device.
> >
> > you can't reliably run a non-NPTL kernel on RHES3. Really. Are you
> > really sure you want to ?
>
> Well, the other way around is to upgrade e1000 driver in the 2.4.21EL-smp,
> as the machine I'm using is quite new, and RHES3 kernel can't find the
> Ethernet device, so the machine has no network.
AFAIR, RedHat still adds support for new hardware to RHES3.
You should contact the RedHat support you are paying for for getting
help with RHES3 running on your hardware.
> My first idea was to consider this as an opportunity to upgrade to the
> latest 2.4.x kernel, but reading you, this looks like a bad idea...
> 2.6.x would be better ?
RHES3 doesn't support kernel 2.6.
> Regards,
> Paul
cu
Adrian
--
"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-23 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-21 11:10 [Linux 2.4.32] SATA ICH5/PIIX and Combined mode Paul Rolland
2005-12-21 11:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-21 11:28 ` Paul Rolland
2005-12-21 11:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-21 11:40 ` Paul Rolland
2005-12-23 1:57 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2005-12-23 2:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-25 15:17 ` Paul Rolland
2005-12-25 15:16 ` Paul Rolland
2005-12-23 7:45 ` Jesse Brandeburg
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[not found] ` <5maE0-21N-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-12-22 4:42 ` Robert Hancock
[not found] <5mKo7-1sD-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <5nFPq-1ZT-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-12-27 2:38 ` Robert Hancock
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