On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:25:07 -0400, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/22/07, Paul Griffith paulg@cse.yorku.ca wrote:
Greetings CentOS users,
I have run into a hardware issue with the Intel 965 chipset. It appears that the latest kernel doesn't support the Marvell PATA controller. I can kickstart the computer, but after the OS is installed the DVD drive can't be accessed.
There are patches against 2.6.18 for the Marvell PATA controller here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/16/157
There is bug report ported for RHEL 5.0 and I assume this will apply to CentOS 5 also. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237372
What are my options other that to try to patch the current kernel (2.6.9-55.0.2.EL) ?
We have a lab of 24 computer to push out before the start of the term (Sept 5/07) ... joy joy
Thanks Paul
I don't really see any other choice here than rebuilding a kernel yourself. But did you see somethere that the patch works for kernel 2.6.9 as well?
Akemi
I didn't see anything that would indicate it (the patch) would work with kernel 2.6.9. I was hoping I didn't have to split up my kernel versions, for example a supported CentOS kernel for servers and a unsupported kernel for the clients that have the lastest and greatest hardware. I was going to give 2.6.9 a quick try and if that didn't work, then go to 2.6.18 which is the base for CentOS 5.
Thanks Paul -