I'm trying to make a custom kernel for my SuSE 9.1 system, which is an IBM
Thinkpad T40 (1.4 GHz P4-M, 768 MB RAM, 25 (30?) GB HD). The HD has 4
primary partitions (no extended partitions). The reason I'm doing this is
to eliminate the drivers and options it uses for which I don't have the
hardware support (i.e., almost all of them). For instance, I don't have
RAID (nor is it feasible on this machine).
I've done this many times in the past, and it's (usually) no big deal.
This time, however, it's being a bear.
I'm starting with the SuSE stock .config (gzip -d < /proc/config.gz >
/usr/src/linux-2.6.7/.config), and (after I get that to work) modifying it
to fit my needs. But I get many errors as soon as the root fs (reiserfs)
is mounted during the boot sequence. The errors are similar to (similar
because I'm copying by hand):
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error}
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBASect=58542742, sector=58542742
That pair repeated, with occasional
ide0: reset: success
or
end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 58542742
thrown in. LBASect and the two sectors are the same number. (Is 58542742
decimal or hex? How bog are the sectors?) I didn't see them changing.
but they went by rather fast (even with a 60-line screen). I don't
suppose there's any way I could log that and retrieve it...
This drive works fine under the stock SuSE kernel and under XP, so it's
not a hardware issue.
I've tried a few changes I found (on the LKML archives) as suggested
solutions for people with similar problems -- don't share IDE interrupts,
don't use the old MFM/RLL driver (I wasn't), and maybe a few others I've
forgotten. None helped. I did have to make reiserfs built in, not
modularized; SuSE uses an initrd but I didn't want to (or know how).
Before I did that, it couldn't mount the root fs at all. I'm not sure
this is an improvement.
Does anybody have any clues or pointers? Thanks.
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