Broken Kernel since 2.6.15 - More Info

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:00:46AM -0600, Jerry Williams wrote:
> This is what I see when I boot.
....
> Red Hat nash version 5.0.32 starting 
> ata1: failed to set xfermode, disabled 
> ata2: failed to set xfermode, disabled 
....
> When I boot from the installation DVD in linux rescue mode it load sata_via
> And everything is fine.

Smells like for some reasons 'sata_via' module is either missing
from your mkinitrd or not loaded by 'init' script there.
You can unpack your initrd and examine details with

   zcat /path/to/your/initrd | cpio -imd

and there are options to mkinitrd like '--preload'.

The above is a guess but the fact that you can boot from
installation media clearly shows that there is no problem between
kernel and your hardware. Sure, there is a bug somewhere.

But this is truly a wrong list to discuss FC5 problems and it
is quite possible that you can find better help on the right one.

   Michal