compiling and booting 2.6.34

[Sune Mølgaard]

Lucio Crusca wrote:
> Stefan Bader wrote:
>
>> Try to boot with acpi_osi="!Windows 2009" as a kernel argument and see
>> whether this does not revive the fn+f8 combination.
>
> Unfortunately it does not, neither with 2.6.32 lucid nor 2.6.34 mainline.
>
>> And as your goal
>> is only to have a vanilla 2.6.34 kernel to check, why not safe the effort
>> of finding out what went wrong and burning more compile time.
>
> of course I followed the suggestion. However I'm quite puzzled, I've been
> able to configure and build a working Debian kernel since 2.4 times until
> 2.6.25 or so (I compiled a working 2.6.34 kernel just a few days ago but for
> a different hardware)... now I wonder what can have changed so much that
> pervents me to build a working-customly-configured kernel despite several
> trials on my dell precision m4400... it's just a need of knowledge.
>
>
>

For some odd reason, the step involving building the initramfs fails to 
include a SATA module. For me, the quick and dirty fix was to compile 
SATA_AHCI into the kernel, although it would be better to fix the 
initramfs generation (heads up here, others)...

/Sune

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