SATA woes

From: Whoever (nobody_at_devnull.none)
Date: 09/30/05


Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:44:17 -0700

I have been trying to install RedHat Enterprise Workstation 4 on a system
based on the Intel 945G chipset with a SATA disk.

By configuring the drive mode to be ATA/IDE in the BIOS, I was able to
install the OS (but very slow, because disk access is very slow).

I was able to download some updates -- including a later kernel, but now
the system won't boot with the latest kernel (it still boots with the
older kernel). The new (non-booting) kernel is 2.6.9-11 (with a -EL or
similar suffix, I am not in front of the system right now).

The error messages are:
IDE0: I/O Resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
IDE0: ports already in use, skipping probe
mkrootdev: label / not found

Does anyone have any ideas what is going wrong and how to fix it?



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