https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200003 --- Comment #6 from Brent (bzipitidoo@xxxxxxxxx) --- This turned out to be way harder than it should have been, thanks to a serious problem with "make oldconfig". I installed OpenSUSE 11 and took its working 2.6.25 configuration, copied it into the 2.6.26 directory, ran make oldconfig on it, then worked and worked on it, taking more and more drivers out to try to isolate the problems, but for the longest time couldn't so much as get 2.6.26 to find /dev/sda, let alone /dev/sr0. During boot, kept saying "FATAL", pata_via and sata_via modules not found, though I had included them, and make menuconfig showed that they were selected. The problem was that make oldconfig had somehow stripped out most of the PATA and SATA configuration flags from the .config file, including the ones the computer needed. Didn't matter if I selected m or y, they were not being compiled. Once I looked in /lib/modules/2.6.26-pae/kernel/drivers/ata/ and saw just one module present when there should have been lots more, I finally figured out it was a build problem. So I tried again with the working 2.6.25 config file, not using "make oldconfig", and built a 2.6.26 kernel that could read the hard drive and finish booting the system. /dev/sda was present and working under 2.6.26. And so, what of /dev/sr0? It was there. But the kernel could not read any discs. Same error messages as in 2.6.27. I can confidently say that the reversion is in 2.6.26. I wonder if Debian Lenny should have been using SCSI and not /dev/hda? Could it be that unknown to the Debian people, they were bit by the same problem with make oldconfig and missing a bunch of sata and pata modules that they thought they had included? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
