[Mageia-discuss] System won't boot after hardware upgrade

Fri Sep 23 00:00:38 CEST 2011

On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:21:19 +0530
+xi <ctrl.alt.sup at free.fr> wrote:
+
+> 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).
+> 
+
+Can you post your mobo model ?
+
+> 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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