There is a problem I meet from time to time while trying to minimize the size of my kernel; using only the mainboard drivers fail without success. You also have to compile the generic ide drivers into the kernel.
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel < trollf...@googlemail.com> wrote: > William Immendorf schrieb: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Scott Kopel <sko...@fsu.edu> wrote: > >> So the question is what kernel configuration changes do I have to make > to get the kernel to recognize my ide drives? I realize that new kernels > name ide drives sdx and that's fine. I don't need them to be labeled hdx. I > simply want them to be recognized by the kernel. > > Look in Device Drivers-> Sereal ATA and Parallel ATA drivers, and you > > should see PATA and SATA drivers. Enable one that matches your hard > > disk controller, or just enable "Generic ATA Support". > > > What I usually do in those cases is matching the output of "hwinfo" > against the help texts in the menuconfig. > > I had a special case here because I use a PCI PATA controller card with > additional drives which needs a different driver than the onboard > controllers, and these two drivers use different naming schemes, so I > ended up having hda and sda/sdb, which spoiled grub's menu.lst entries a > little. So just in case, when booting and unsure which drive has what > number, use the tab expansion in the grub interactive shell. > > Cheers, > Jan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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