2.2.26 kernel is out

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I'm afraid that I don't understand the problem that you're having.  Are
you not able to boot off of the 2.6.8 kernel, or are you having some other
problem?


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Rick Sivernell wrote:

> David Kurt Lonnie or other
>
>   I have installed gentoo on and seagate drive 30g in size, the fact that I am
> using gentoo is not important, it is the kernel. I sent the following to gentoo
> list and got only one reply and that is on the fstab file.
>
> After working with this for a couple of days I have moved to the 2.4.26 kernel
> and the system comes up and loads very nicely. it appears that something is not
> reading the hard drive properly at system boot up and storing the info into
> /proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings for the 2.6.8 kernel. I am using grub on this drive
> and still have the kernell image and initrd images for 2.6.8 kernel in /boot.
>
> is there something in the new 2.6.8 kernel that may not be able to read this
> drive, made in 1999-2000 time frame.
>
>
>
> Gentoo List msg:
>   I have installed the stage-3.i686*.tar.gz livecd. All went well untill I try to
> boot the system. The proc/ide/ide0/hda/settings have all of the wrong values, and
> the system can not load the /dev/hda into the system as it can not figure out
> what it is. When I reboot with cdrom and mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo -
> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot - mount -t procproc /mnt/gentoo/proc all works
> as expected. /deev/hda is reconized proberly. the ide driver for livecd is 1.17
> and the new system is 1.18. /dev/hda3 is reiserfs and /boot is ext2. This system
> is a pIII coppermine 2533 mHz 756 meg of ram.
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