[Clfs-support] Nightmare with new MB

[ALIP BUDIANTO]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Alonso Graterol
<alonso.graterol at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was able to build CLFS-SVN-20100103-x86_64-Pure64 using 2.6.32.2
> instead of 2.6.30.5.
> I also built Xorg-7.5 following BLFS directions but it freezes when
> trying "X -retro -config" with the freshly brewed xorg.conf.new.
> That's another issue...
>
> While working Xorg I found out my old VIA MB was no longer OK so I
> bought a new MB, this time an AMD 740G + SB700 with integrated Radeon
> 2100.
>
> When I tried to boot my working system it stops with kernel panic
> because it cannot find root partition /dev/hda1. To my surprise when I
> tried to boot the same LFS 64bit liveCD I used to build my system it
> stops because cannot mount /dev/lfs-cd and drop me back to a shell
> where I can't do much from.
>
> If I try a OpenSUSE liveCD it actually boots and I can access my
> hdd.This way I could rebuild my kernel to get rid of all VIA related
> settings and adjust it according to my new MB features. I also set all
> SATA related parameters and drop almost all IDE ones as suggested by
> some Google hits.
>
> No different results so far. No even changing BIOS setup between IDE,
> AHCI and RAID.
>
> When trying with LFS liveCD I can read te following just before it stops,
>
> ahci: controller can't do 64bit DMA,forcing 32bit
> scsi0: ahci
> scsi1: ahci
> scsi2: ahci
> scsi3: ahci
> .
> .
> .
> SB600-PATA: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later.
>      ide0: BD-DAM at 0xf00-0xff07, BIOS setting: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> (changing to DMA, same story)
>
> Any hints on how to boot without need of an initram or similar as I
> used to boot are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Alonso
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Wow this is truly a nightmare if you dont have a initrd.
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