Douglas Mayne wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:34:43 -0400, Robert Glueck wrote:
>
>> I installed Slackware v.11 (-current from 9/11/06) on a Dell
>> Inspiron 6400 laptop with Intel Core Duo processor and an
>> internal SATA hard disk drive. I picked the sata.i kernel
>> both for the installation and for running the installed
>> system; the kernel version is 2.4.33.3.
> <snip>
>> I added the following stanza for Slackware to Xandros'
>> lilo.conf:
>>
>> image=/disks/welcome_2/boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.33.3
>> label=Slackware_11_on_sda8
>> root=/dev/sda8
>> read-only
>
> That looks like the generic kernel to me, not the sata kernel you
> mentioned earlier. Replace with the correct kernel, or build an
> appropriate initrd. For 2.6.x kernels, I think the module you need is
> ata_piix. I don't know which module for the 2.4.x kernel, but the newer
> 2.6.x kernel worked better for me with similar hardware (Dell Latitude
> D610).
> <snip>
> Note: comments inline.
>

Well, what can I say? :-) At the beginning of the
installation I picked the "default" installation kernel
which was called "sata.i". After all the packages were
installed, I was asked to "Choose Linux Kernel", and here I
picked the highlighted choice which was
"/cdrom/kernels/sata.i/bzImage", assuming that this was the
same kernel that I picked as the installation kernel.

There is only one "sata" kernel in the /cdrom/kernels/
directory, i.e. "sata.i", and the file
/cdrom/kernels/SATA-SUPPORT.TXT says that this kernel has
SATA support built into it. After making the above choices,
the vmlinuz-ide-2.4.33.3 kernel is what I found installed on
my system. Obviously, this kernel is not working for me.

Robert