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olger901
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 Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject: Does switching to 2.6.19 also mean grub and fstab adaptions? |
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Hello all,
I am planning on doing an upgrade to the 2.6.19 kernel on my notebook as soon as it's stable.
But I'd like to know the following beforehand:
My notebook has an Intel I945 chipset and has a SATA harddrive and a SATA DVD-/+RW drive in it. Now I noticed on the forums that you will need to disable the SCSI drivers from the 2.6.18 kernel and enable them in the IDE/ATA kernel part. However does this also require adapting grub and fstab and switching them from sda to hda? |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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olger901,
There are no changes to /etc/fstab for a new kernel
You should put your new 2.6.19 kernel in beside your old kernel so you have a choice at boot time.
You need to modilfy grub.conf to add a new booting block if you do that.
At the bottom of the file add a new
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section. The initrd is only needed if you have an initrd file to load.
In the 2.6.19 kernel, the SATA options have been rearranged.
Copying the old .config file over and running make oldconfig does not work very well.
You need to check that your SATA options are selected manually.
Your drives will still be /dev/sd?
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