[SOLVED] problems about updating kernel to 2.6.24

[aixilin]

Today I update the kernel from 2.6.8 to 2.6.24 for etch.

After I build and install the new kernel version, it show me errors :

Alert:/dev/sda1 doesn't exist .Dropping to a shell.

I search old post about this problem.

It maybe because the SATA driver was mounted as module.

So I should manually add it to some configure file so that it can work as kernel boot.

But which file should be changed >?? .config or menu.lst or fstab??

Anybody can help me ??

[GNU-Fan]

What exactly did you build? A Debian kernel or a complete custom one from kernel.org?

I use the latter on my Etch and as I boot the machine from an SATA drive, I have the kernel configured to have the SATA drivers and the filesystem drivers not as modules but completely built-in. That way I do not need to use an initrd.

[Grandebasta]

You will have to configure your kernel properly

- Get and install "Linux-headers"....: And the files for doing the configurations are somewhere there. I could maybe look it up somewhere, as I once did it my self. But in the mean time some one else might give you the paths to the config files.

[aixilin]

It 's form debian kernel. I get answer now .. That's because the modules name is different in 2.6.2*. for example , CONFIG_SCSI_ATA in 2.6.8 should be changed to CONFIG_ATA in 2.6.24.
I update it to 2.6.18. It works.
Tks for your reply

[Grandebasta]

Fantastic!
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