No kernel 2.26.29 is working

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:07:11PM +0100, Antonio M wrote:
> 2009/1/15 Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>:
> >
> > Antonio is not saying very much what really happens so no wonder
> > that nobody is rushing with an advice.  OTOH from what he eventually
> > posted on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479525#c4 it
> > appears that this is way before initrd comes into play. What is
> > supposed to come on his machine(s) after
> >
> > ata2.00: configured for UDM/33
> > ata2.01: configured for MWDMA2
> >
> > is his own sweet secret.
> >
> these are the lines in dmesg in a regular boot: any comment???
> 
> scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      Maxtor 6L200P0   BAH4 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 398297088 512-byte hardware sectors: (203 GB/189 GiB)
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
> support DPO or FUA
.....

Well, attachment to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=479525
is not of an application/octet-stream type, as left there, but your
regular text.   Few lines is usually more than enough here.

Here and there you mean that this is what you expect to see in a
normal boot but it not coming.  Right?  You are not perfectly clear.

If this happens then, if you installed kernel-doc package, in
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.29/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
there are described various 'libata....' parameters which you may
want to try.  It is also possible that in that part of dmesg you
are not showing, and from a failing boot, there are some errors
and/or hints which can give you an information.  If you will find
some options which allow you to boot then this is a valuable
information for developers.

If you want the whole story then in subdirectory DocBook/libata you
will find the whole big reference.

  Michal