On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:45:24AM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> I own a Iwill XA100+ board with a ALI M1541 chipset and a 20Go UDMA66 IBM
> harddisk.
>
> 2.3.99-pre8 worked fine on this etup, but both 2.399-pre9 and 2.4.0-test1,
> compiled with the same .config don't work. The boot messages show that the
> kernel can't read the partition table, ...
>
> i have the disk partitioned with a 6 GB windows/dos/whatever partition, then a
> <1Go root partition, andthe rest of the stuff on a extended partition.
The partitioning does not play a role.
The partition table just happens to be the first thing
the kernel tries to read.
Probably your board does not handle UDMA66.
Probably your problem is fixed in recent ac patches
(but then, there may be other problems :-)).
Andries
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