[Mageia-discuss] System won't boot after hardware upgrade
xi
ctrl.alt.sup at free.fr
Thu Sep 22 11:51:19 CEST 2011
Hi,
I have changed my motherboard and Mageia now refuses to boot (kernel
panic after trying to mount /dev/sda1 : "waiting for device sda1 to
appear (timeout 1 min), ...").
I think I know the reason of my problem : the initrd does not load the
correct driver for my "new" IDE controller, so it can't mount my disk
(driver for old motherboard is pata_amd and new driver is pata_via).
I tried to play with mageia rescue CD, but I am unable to regenerate the
initrd with the correct IDE driver (in fact, the rescue CD doesn't even
contain the mkinitrd command).
My question is : how can I solve my problem, given that I have only one
rescue CD and my HD containing mageia that don't boot anymore ?
A long time ago in the perfect world of Mandrake (:P), all IDE
controller were included _inside_ the kernel and _not_ compiled as
modules*, so this problem never occured because all IDE drivers were
always "loaded" (thus allowing my system to be booted on any computer).
Now that the ide/sata drivers as compiled as modules, why don't the
initrd try to load all the ATA drivers if mounting of "/" fails ?
(from my point of view, it is a much better solution than failing with a
kernel panic ...)
Thanks for your help,
Xavier
*this is _my_ interpretation, I may be wrong.
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