Bugzilla – Bug 137735
new kernel update (dec 6 2005) enabled sata drive support in sis5513 chipset
Last modified: 2006-08-14 06:00:51 UTC
I downloaded the kernal update for suse10 posted on dec 6 2005. afet re booting the system will not recognize by sata hard drive. the '/dev/sda5' was no longer there. I had to downrev the kernel to get back my sata drive. It was lucky that my boot was not from the sata drive. I found this line in the (unworking)kernel /etc/sysconfig/kernel INITRD_MODULES="sis5513 sata_sis processor thermal fan jbd ext3" but apparently the new kernel did not load the sata driver.
Ah, I see. Actually, the opposite is true; we added support for the sata drive to the ide driver. Jens, this is a fallout of bugzilla #122015. Why didn't we fix sata_sis to handle it properly?
So the naming changed for the PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI, 0x180 device? *sigh*
Well, we now have _two_ possible drivers for PCI_VENDOR_ID_SI, 0x180. Kumar, please exchange the positions of 'sis5513' and 'sata_sis' and re-run mkinitrd. This should fix your problem.
The problem here is that support for the SATA device is _enabled_ in sis5513, it didn't disable them (as sis5513 does not support SATA anyway).
Unfortunately, I do boot from SATA, and got a nasty suprise with this kernal update! Will booting a recovery CD, editing /etc/sysconfig/kernel to read: INITRD_MODULES="sata_sis sis5513 processor thermal fan jbd ext3" Then running mkinitrd fix the problem? Or will the duplicate SATA support in sis5513 mess up sata_sis?
Sorry, this can't be a crit-sit, that is reserved for other purposes.
Ad comment #5: yes, it will. sata_sis will claim its supported devices; those won't be available for sis5513.
I experienced the same problem and since the sata is my only drive the system is left unbootable, i reinstalled the kernel from the install disk, changed the line in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and performed the upgrade again. This fixed the problem.
*** Bug 147265 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 150176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have also had people report that this is an issue with the SiS SATA chipset and that it is also causing problems with SUSE Linux 10.1 as well. For one person, they went in and changed the drive settings from
I didn't mean to submit before finishing comment #11. One person fixed it by re-installing the original kernel editing fstab after doing the updatebut before re-booting, changing hda? - sda? and voila, fixed.
Closing due to inactivity.