I can not get new kernels to boot, something about disk partitition set up. Originally I loaded Mdk 10.0 which seems to work fine, then dowloaded and compiled 2.6.5 and then patched to 2.6.6-rc2. All of htis seems to work fine with no compile errors. I install modules, and make new initrd's but when it comes to boot is has problems, starts with something like

hda:bad access: block ******
end_request.............
Ext.rs .....
hda: bad

and then ends in a kernel panic

I've used the same lilo setup as for 2.6.3 which works fine but stll no luck. At the bottom here I've included f listing of fdisk -l, my fstab and lilo.conf. If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong I'd be most greatful. I know that HP has some weird disk paritiion set up with some of its own info on it, could that be the problem. Someone suggested that under the new kernels that the disk partitions were recongnized as s instead of h, scsi instead of regular ide hda ? Why would that be? If I change lilo.conf to root=/dev/sda then the new kernel might boot (or may not!) and likely the original kernel will not boot so I would be stuck with non booting system again? Thoughts.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Jim

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77520 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 46729 23551258+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 46730 46731 1008 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 46732 77520 15517656 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 122.9 GB, 122942325248 bytes
1 heads, 1 sectors/track, 240121729 cylinders, total 240121729 sectors
Units = cylinders of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2 61440001 30720000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 61440002 128455803 33507901 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda3 * 128455803 240121729 55832963+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 128455804 240106619 55825408 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 240106621 240121729 7554+ 83 Linux


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/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noatime 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/ext ext3 noatime,user 1 2
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,user 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,user 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,user 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0


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# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file
#Edited by JAM on 20/4/04 to try to get the thing to boot

append="mem=256M"
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=200
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda3
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only

image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.5
label="linux-2.6.5"
root=/dev/hda3
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.5.img
append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
read-only

image=/boot/bzImage-2.6.6
label="linux-2.6.6"
root=/dev/hda3
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.6.img
append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
read-only

other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda