Kernel 2.6.16.5 won't boot
 

HI.

I compiled the latest stable Kernel, that is available from Kernel.org right now, it's version 2.6.16.5 .

I compiled it, with pretty much the same setings I compiled my last Kernel, the 2.6.14.6 .

I have all Filesystems and Harddisk drivers compiled into my Kernel, but I made a ramdisk file with mkinitrd anyway.

Anyway, compiling went nice, but when I try to boot, I get the following error:
I've got a SATA harddisk, where Linux is installed on.

It all works well with the old Kernel, I really don't have any clue, what I did wrong...

please help,

--polemon

This error message indicates kernel has no support for your HDD controller chipset.

Have you tried copying over the .config file from your 2.6.14.6 kernel to your 2.6.16.5 src directory after running make mrproper and then running make oldconfig?

make mrproper, make oldconfig?

I never used that, all I did was

make xconfig
make dep clean
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install

But how can it be, that the HDD chipset driver is missing, when I included pretty much every driver...

but i'll definately have a look a the config file.

There are a bunch of new settings in the 2.16 series - I'm not familiar with that error, but this may at least rule out the possibility of the .config file being the problem.

This error ending with (0,0) implies kernel is not getting to HDD, with some other (non-zero) values it indicates filesystem is not supported.

gilead - did you compile generic SCSI support in? it is required for SATA.

Hi Emerson, I don't think you meant that for me... :)

Hee, sorry pal. Got it wrong :cry:

I did, what I was told, but I still get the same error...

And yes, SCSI support is compiled into the Kernel.

Magic things happening!!

I downloaded the 2.6.16.7 Kernel sources and made a
make mrproper
make oldconfig

after compiling the kernel, everything works best!!!

why it didn't work with the 2.6.16.5 Kernel? NO CLUE!

--polemon

That's weird, but I'm glad it's working. There are quite a few changes from 2.6.16.5 to 2.6.16.7 (ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kerne...geLog-2.6.16.6 and ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kerne...geLog-2.6.16.7) so maybe one of them took care of the problem.

It was ropably some Kernel bug that has been debugged in the 2.6.16.6 version.

I tryed the 2.6.16.5 Kernel again and i still get the same exact error when I do the steps that led to success with the ...7 version.

--polemon