[cAos-devel] Upgrading cAos kernel?

[Tim Leger]

Hello,

   I've been using cAos 2.2.2b for about 6 month now on a 96 node 
cluster.  Great distribution, I've really come to like the simplicity of 
the cAos distribution over the Mandrake distros I used to use.  I'm now  
trying to install cAos on a new set of machines which have ASUS M2N-MX 
motherboards.  I've tried installing both the cAos 2.2.2b and newer cAos 
3 beta 2 with no success because neither one can see the built-in SATA 
controller, which is an nVidia nForce430 chipset (more specifically the 
mcp61).   When cinch comes up, it reports that it can't find any 
drives.  To get around this, I've temporarily borrowed a SATA controller 
card from another machine and was able to get cAos 3 beta 2 installed.  
However, the SATA controller on the motherboard still doesn't work after 
installing cAos and I can't keep the borrowed controller card in this 
machine for long.  When I plug the drive back into the onboard 
controller port after installing cAos, it fails to boot completely with 
a kernel panic and the message that the SATA port link is down.
   I've done some digging around on the web and supposedly this is a 
know problem which was fixed in the 2.6.18 and above kernels.  Is there 
a way to upgrade the current 2.6.17 cAos kernel to a 2.6.18+ kernel?  I 
also thought about just installing the latest nVidia drivers, but 
nVidia's website states that the latest nForce motherboard drivers are 
distributed with the linux kernels.  I'd appreciate any help you could 
give me on how to fix this problem.

Regards, Tim Leger