Re: [Linux 2.4.32] SATA ICH5/PIIX and Combined mode

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 12:10 +0100, Paul Rolland wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a machine with two SATA HDD, and one PATA CDRom.
> Bios is configured for combined mode, and installing a RedHat ES3
> (Kernel 2.4.21-ELsmp) is fine, the two HDD are up, the installation
> is fine and the CDRom is working.
> 
> Then, upgrading to a vanilla 2.4.32, the ata_piix.c file contains
> a "combined mode not supported" and booting the machine hangs, as
> no VFS are up for root device.

you can't reliably run a non-NPTL kernel on RHES3. Really. Are you
really sure you want to ? 

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