[ale] Booting with 'alternative' FSs (Was: Aww... This is sad...)

[Michael B. Trausch]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 
> I had a similar issue with reiserfs recently.
> 
> Not sure exactly what fixed it but it was some either "make install"
> or "mkinitrd" fixed.
> 

Well, I'm looking into it... I always use 'make install' on the kernel,
and 'make modules_install'.  I hardly ever use a ramdisk for it though,
because I generally build all of the modules that are needed to finish
the boot process into the kernel, since they're going to be loaded for
the duration anyway, and run-time linking takes additional overhead,
however negligible.

Anyway, this is the first time I've had this happen, and it actually may
be, I found out, due to the fact that this particular machine has
something in it that I didn't realize before:  The lack of an IDE bus,
and the presence of SATA.  I didn't realize that the workstations at
work had that difference until I ran 'lspci'.  So, I'm going to rebuild
it with the appropriate SATA driver and that will (probably) fix it.  It
would make sense; it can't access /dev/hda3 if it's on SATA.

The only confusing element of that, however, is that I thought that SATA
was handled by the SCSI layers, and so I thought that it would be
/dev/sdXYY instead of /dev/hdXYY.  (Did this change between 2.4 & 2.6?
Does anyone know?  I've never configured SATA on 2.4.)

	- Mike

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Michael B. Trausch                                      fd0man at gmail.com
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