[5817] in Release_7.7_team
Bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Heldt)
Fri Aug 24 14:03:11 2007
From: Thomas Heldt <thomas@MIT.EDU>
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Hi,
After the athena linux patch release earlier this week, my private
workstation (aladdin.mit.edu) encountered a hardware failure upon
reboot. This prompted me to put my harddrive into a newer machine. The
bios of this machine does not have a legacy / ATA compatibility mode for
the SATA drives. During the boot-up, I got a 'kernel panic' error
message and the boot-process stopped.
When I put the harddrive into a third (older) machine it booted up fine
(but did not recognized the network card for some reason). My question:
why does the athena linux distribution seem to rely on legacy mode for
SATA drives? The new machine I was hoping to use is already two years
old.
In the meantime, I helped myself by switching to FC7.
Thanks,
Thomas
