<><Randall Grimshaw Room 203 Machinery Hall Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244 315-443-5779 rgrimsha@xxxxxxx >>> ptho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2/23/2006 10:19 AM >>> > We have a High Point Sata controller. When we boot up with an updated > kernel, the OS reports that it cannot find the disk. > How do we tell the new kernel at boot up where to find the driver? > Details: grub can see the available kernels; booting on the old kernel > works; booting with the new kernel gives the cannot find disk message. vaugely described: (because our situations do not match exactly) What we have discovered with rhel is that it is neccessary to compile the kernel with certain drivers linked statically - rather than as modules. This was not neccessary with fc4 in our case so ymmv.
