On Monday 28 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: >On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Richard Heck wrote: >> Daniel Barkalow wrote: >> > Can you switch back to old IDE to get your work done (and to make sure >> > it's not a hardware issue that's developed recently)? >> >> I think it'd be really, REALLY helpful to a lot of people if you, or >> someone, could explain in moderate detail how this might be done. I tried >> doing it myself, but I'm not sufficiently expert at configuring kernels >> that I was ever able to figure out how to do it. > >As far as configuring the kernel, I can help: > >Go to Device Drivers, ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support, and turn on anything that >looks relevant; go to Device Drivers, Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers, >and turn off anything that's PATA and looks relevant. > Done. >(Whether a device uses IDE or PATA depends on which driver that supports >the device is present and find it first, not on any sort of global >configuration, which is probably what tripped you up) > >Building this and installing it along with the appropriate initrd (which >might be handled by Fedora's install scripts) Or mine, which I've been using for years. >will either get you back to >old IDE or will make your kernel panic on boot, depending on whether you >got it right (so make sure you can still boot the kernel you're sure of or >something from a boot disk). This will also cause your hard drives to show >up as different device nodes, so if your boot process doesn't mount by >disk uuid but by some other feature (and I don't know what Fedora does), >you'll also need to change it to something either stable across access >methods or which works for the one you're now using. It mounts by LABEL=. All of it. >> Obviously, the short version is: switch back to Fedora 6. But this kind of >> problem with libata---and yes, you're almost surely right that it's not >> one problem but lots---is sufficiently widespread that a Mini HOWTO, say, >> would be really welcome and, I'm guessing, widely used. > >Fedora really ought to provide documentation, because there's some >distro-specific stuff (like how you deal with the kernel's device node for >the root partition changing), and they're using code by default that's at >least somewhat documented as experimental (although it doesn't seem to be >actually marked as experimental in all cases). Fedora is not the only people having trouble, name a distro, its probably someplace in that 14,800 hit google returns. > -Daniel >*This .sig left intentionally blank* Thanks Daniel, try #1 is building now. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
