Marcus, On Sunday 15 October 2006 11:09, Marcus Camen wrote:
On Sunday 15 October 2006 19:41, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Is this a regression in 2.6.18-9?
No, 2.6.18-11 does also work. I think I have enabled AHCI for the JM IDE controller in the BIOS settings.
Hurrah! And thank you. Actually, I thought I'd tried this already, but what I didn't realize was that I'd changed the ICH8 SATA from IDE emulation to AHCI. I had overlooked the JMicron setting in a separate BIOS screen. When I change the ICH8 setting from IDE to AHCI, the system will not boot at all. I just see the BIOS boot screen, with nothing but a flashing underscore cursor. But if I put the ICH8 SATA setting back to IDE and change the JMicron to AHCI, I can boot from the IDE ATAPI drive (using the SuSE boot disc and ultimately booting the SCSI hard drive where the root file system resides). And I can see (as in hwinfo) and access (as in YaST Software Management, e.g.) that drive from the running system.
I use camen@home ~ $ grep ^INITRD_MODULES /etc/sysconfig/kernel INITRD_MODULES="ahci generic fan reiserfs edd"
% grep ^INITRD_MODULES /etc/sysconfig/kernel INITRD_MODULES="processor thermal ahci ata_piix generic mptspi fan reiserfs edd"
For the disks I'm also using AHCI mode.
Out of curiosity (only, since I've achieved what I want based on your advice) I wonder if these hard drives are on the ICH8 SATA buses or the JMicron SATA buses?
-- Marcus
Again, thanks for the advice. Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org