Re: CRUX 2.8 and legacy PATA/IDE hard-disc

Tom and Elke Butz wrote:

I wonder if anyone has managed to compile an operating system that supports legacy PATA/IDE hard-discs. As long as I haven't rebooted yet everything works well. LILO also works but when it tries to access the root partition (/dev/sda1 ext2) it panics..

Hello Tom, have you tried replacing sda1 with hda1? If this won't help it would be good to see your kernel config and (controller-wise) hardware specs. greetins from Tom and Elke [Penteker] ;)