New Kernel Hangs-up Booting

[Darin Peterson]

There are known issues with SATA drives and different kernel versions.  Look
in your /etc/fstab file and look for an entry for the mount point of your
hard drive.  Some kernel versions recognize SATA disks as /dev/hd?, and
others /dev/sd?.  If the newer kernel version is looking for a /dev/sd?
device, and your /etc/fstab file is mounting a /dev/hd? device this will
cause problems.

Keep in mind that if you make modifications to the /etc/fstab file, your
system may become unbootable in any of the kernel versions, or may boot in
read only  file system mode.

The best thing I can recommend is searching existing issues with SATA
devices for the kernel version you would like to use.


-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Joseph
Abrahams
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 11:26 AM
To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
Subject: New Kernel Hangs-up Booting


I recently installed redhat 9.0.  After letting the automatic updater
install kernel 2.4.20-31.9 on top of the existing 2.4.20-8, I've
experienced problems booting.  Grub now has four entries (two for
2.4.20-8 and two for 2.4.20-31.9).  The old kernel still boots fine, but
if I boot from 2.4.20-31.9 it gets to "hde: attached ide-disk drive" and
won't go any farther.

My coputer is a pentium4 originally with windows XP on a SATA drive.  I
installed redhat on an new ultra ata/100 drive.  I noticed during
installation that the installed couldn't see my SATA drive, but
everything worked fine until inatalling the new kernel.

Thanks for help,
Joseph

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