I've installed kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.1287_FC4 on a Gigabyte
GA-8i915G Pro ( with has ICH6 ) with a pentium 4 2.8g HT
chip. It has a 300g maxtor SATA drive ( only drive ).
It boots, but then kernel panic mounting root.
It looks alright until:
SCSI subsystem initialized
Loading libata.ko module
Loading ata_piix.ko module
Loading dm-mod.ko module
ata_piix: Unknown symbol ata_scsi_ioctl
ata_piix: Unknown symbol ata_std_bios_param
ata_piix: Unknown symbol ata_tf_read
ata_piix: Unknown symbol ata_tf_write
ata_piix: Unknown symbol ata_bmdma_start
ata_piix: Unknown symbol ata_bmdma_setup
ata_piix: Unknown symbol ata_bmdma_stop
[...........]
ata_piix: Unknown symbol ata_port_start
insmod: error inserting '/lib/ata_piix.ko': -1 Unknown
symbol in module
and then all sorts of bad stuff happens.
I did go get 2.6.12-rc4 today. Built it with ata_piix
compiled in ( not as a module ). That worked. Booted.
Mounted root. However, same kernel panic if ahci.ko was
also compiled in. I also got a kernel panic when ata_piix
was a module and I removed ahci.ko from modules.
sean