nixCraft

Hello guys,

I'm using opensuse10.2 with kernel 2.6.18. to install mipl i need to patch the kernel to 2.6.16. i did so but after rebooting the system it doesn't boot up with the newly installed kernel giving this message:

Resuming device dev/sda5 not found (ignoring)
Waiting for device dev/sda5 to appear ...... not found

and hangs. the previous kernel (2.6.1 is ok. using hdd sata and here's the disk configuration:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 5 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 6 4581 36756720 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 4582 9726 41327212+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 4582 4761 1445818+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 4762 6762 16073001 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 6763 9726 23808298+ 83 Linux

as you can see sda5 is the partition where suse boots up from.

any remedy is very much appreciated.

Make sure kernel includes support for SATA device, when you run make xconfig or make config you need to select SATA feature and recompile the kernel

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