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From: andy liebman <andyliebman@aol.com>
To: rdunlap@xenotime.net
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Atapi CDROM, SATA OS drive, and 2.6.14+ kernel
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:42:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BC4161.1030800@aol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0601041224180.19134@shark.he.net>

rdunlap@xenotime.net wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 andyliebman@aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Can somebody tell me what changed in the 2.6.14 kernel that doesn't
>> allow me to access my CDROM drive when my OS drive is SATA?
>>
>> I have an image of a working 2.6.14 system that was installed on an IDE
>> drive. I restored the image to a SATA drive, changed a few lines in
>> /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf so that they refer to /dev/sd* devices
>> instead of /dev/hd* devices.
>>
>> I also modified /etc/modprobe.conf so that it is identical to the file
>> that Mandriva 2006 produces when installed directly to a SATA drive
>> (but Mandriva 2006 has the 2.6.12.x kernel).
>>
>> I can't mount my CDROM when running 2.6.14.x
>>
>> I have googled this for several days. I have seen posts about passing
>> options to the kernel and including extra lines in modprobe.conf like:
>>
>> libata atapi_enabled=1
> 
> should be:
>   libata.atapi_enabled=1
> if libata is built into the kernel image.

Well, I added that to my modprobe.conf file, remade the initrd. But then 
on rebooting I got a kernel panic -- VFS not able to sync root filesystem.

Any other ideas?

> 
>> Can't find the magic formula. Help would be appreciated.
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-04 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-04 19:54 andyliebman
2006-01-04 20:13 ` Matan Peled
2006-01-04 20:24   ` andy liebman
2006-01-04 20:24 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-04 21:42   ` andy liebman [this message]
2006-01-04 21:52     ` Randy.Dunlap

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