Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > On 6 May 2010, at 09:37, Roger Mason wrote: >> ... >> I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds >> the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of >> the >> kernel on the install cd. > > Are you sure ext[234] is compiled statically into the kernel in this > .config?
Yes. > Also the drivers for the EIDE / SATA controller. > > The liveCD configs I've seen generally store these as modules. I, too, > usually take a copy of the config from a working LiveCD when I compile > a kernel, but I *always* have to change something. This what grep SATA kernel-config says: # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set CONFIG_SATA_PMP=y CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=m CONFIG_SATA_SIL24=m CONFIG_SATA_SVW=m CONFIG_SATA_MV=m CONFIG_SATA_NV=m CONFIG_SATA_QSTOR=m CONFIG_SATA_PROMISE=m CONFIG_SATA_SX4=m CONFIG_SATA_SIL=m CONFIG_SATA_SIS=m CONFIG_SATA_ULI=m CONFIG_SATA_VIA=m CONFIG_SATA_VITESSE=m CONFIG_SATA_INIC162X=m lspci says: 00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA So, what must I set? Thanks for the help. Roger