On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:43:45AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > Pekka fixed SLUB for me, and now core2 box survives up and including to > not finding / : > > Setup is SATA disk with plain old partitions, nothing lvmancy: > > /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) > > CONFIG_ATA=y > CONFIG_ATA_ACPI=y > CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y > CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y > CONFIG_PATA_JMICRON=y > > sda1 is for swap. > > > [ 3.920000] NET: Registered protocol family 1 > [ 3.920000] VFS: Cannot open root device "sda2" or unknown-block(0,0) The winner is partly me, partly git-libata-all. The latter introduced CONFIG_ATA_SFF option and put more or less every SATA and PATA driver under it. The former honestly answered N to when ATA_SFF popped up and failed to check existence of ATA_PIIX and PATA_JMICRON in failing .config . Now raise hands those who knew that your ATA controller is SFF compliant. -- 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
