Does the 2.6 packages in the testing directory support SATA drives? I've just tried installing 2.6 (following the instructions), but when I rebooted I got a kernel panic saying that it was unable to mount the root file system (both with 2.6 and 2.4 )

PS - Is there anyway of rescuing my installation now? No, I didn't create a rescue disk as I don't have a floppy drive.

You can always boot off the boot cd and follow the text directions to boot into your system (the CD is a rescue disk as well). As far as I know they do have SATA support in that 2.6 kernel, I'm checking for it now and I'll report back.

Ok... did you make an initrd? If so (you should have, read /boot/README.initrd), when you selected the file system module you also would need to select the SATA system module so that it can be loaded before the root file system is mounted. If you tell me what SATA chipset you are using I can give you the exact mkinitrd command line you'd need.

Thanks, I've got an Ich5 chipset.

mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.10 -m libata:ata_piix:reiserfs

This assumes your using reiserfs as your file system and the 2.6.10 kernel. Change this to ext3 and 2.6.x where applicable. Let me know if you have any problems.

Thanks (again). I'll try it when I get back from Uni

Well after a lot of chroot'ing and rebooting I've got 2.6.11 working

When using 2.6 should I expect any problems using the standard tgz packages? I ask as firefox and thunderbird don't want to connect to remote web servers anymore

Lets see if ndiswrapper will work now...

hey simon, it took me 9 tries to recompile my kernal to 2.6.10 correctly. If you think something might not work correctly you can always change your .config file and recompile again.

Your old kernel should still be on your machine under /usr/src/linux2.X.XX (unless you delted it). If you want to go mack to your old configuration, just cd to the directory containing the old kernel and compile again using your old .config file. Or if you really want to use the new kernel, copy you're .config file from your old kernel to your new kernel folder and run just to make sure everything is there.

I think it's an option under devices=> hard drives when you run menuconfig/xconfig. I use 2.6.10, so I don't know if 2.6.11 has the support or if it's deprecated. Your best shot is simply recompiling and installing your modules again (make, make modules_install, make install)


GOOD LUCK!

I wouldn't expect you to have any abnormal problems with packages as a result of 2.6. So long as you have udev running you should be money.

@ mrchaos - I was never trying to compile my own kernel, just use the one from the test directory



No joy with ndiswrapper yet so I'm off the networking forum (and to google to find out what udev is)...

Thanks for the help!

Guess I'm just oblivious...

there are some things broken in 2.6.10 get 2.6.11 from www.kernel.org instead.

MunCH

like what? 2.6.10 seems to work for me so far...