Re: Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:45:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > J.F. Gratton wrote: > > - I know my hardware, it's unlikely to change in a near-future; a new > > kernel is more likely to come out thant my hardware to change; why using > > an initrd then if I know exactly what needs to be put in module

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 05:49:46PM -0500, J.F. Gratton wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 06:32 +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > > > Well I tried your (Michael and Paul's) ways (which, btw used to be the > > [...] > > > > > > A bit of i

Re: Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:45:26PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > J.F. Gratton wrote: > > - I know my hardware, it's unlikely to change in a near-future; a new > > kernel is more likely to come out thant my hardware to change; why using > > an initrd then if I know exactly what needs to be put in module

Re: Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-03 Thread J.F. Gratton
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:45 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > J.F. Gratton wrote: > > - I know my hardware, it's unlikely to change in a near-future; a new > > kernel is more likely to come out thant my hardware to change; why using > > an initrd then if I know exactly what needs to be put in modules and >

Re: Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
J.F. Gratton wrote: > - I know my hardware, it's unlikely to change in a near-future; a new > kernel is more likely to come out thant my hardware to change; why using > an initrd then if I know exactly what needs to be put in modules and > must not ? This assumes a best case scenario that you will

Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-03 Thread J.F. Gratton
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:09 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > J.F. Gratton wrote: > > solved, but not at my full satisfaction... > > > > I compiled the kernel with initrd support and it went fine, using a > > 2.6.12-10 config file. > > > > I therefore voided one of the main gain I wanted b

Re: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jan 03 12:13 -0600]: > > > J.F. Gratton wrote: > >solved, but not at my full satisfaction... > > > >I compiled the kernel with initrd support and it went fine, using a > >2.6.12-10 config file. > > > >I therefore voided one of the main gain I want

Re: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
J.F. Gratton wrote: solved, but not at my full satisfaction... I compiled the kernel with initrd support and it went fine, using a 2.6.12-10 config file. I therefore voided one of the main gain I wanted by building my own kernel: getting rid of initrd. I still got my own kernel at the time I

SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread J.F. Gratton
solved, but not at my full satisfaction... I compiled the kernel with initrd support and it went fine, using a 2.6.12-10 config file. I therefore voided one of the main gain I wanted by building my own kernel: getting rid of initrd. I still got my own kernel at the time I wanted (ie: not waiting

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread J.F. Gratton
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 06:32 +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > > > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > Well I tried your (Michael and Paul's) ways (which, btw used to be the > [...] > > > > A bit of info I did not have -because I did not think of it- before: > > cfdisk /dev/hda

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread Andrew Vaughan
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 05:57, J.F. Gratton wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 10:03 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:53:38AM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: > > > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > > > I've been unable to access any partition on /dev/hda sinc

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread J.F. Gratton
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 10:03 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:53:38AM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: > > > > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > > (I must first start by apologizing if you've seen this post twice in > > > 12hrs.. I've had problems here

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:53:38AM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: > > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > (I must first start by apologizing if you've seen this post twice in > > 12hrs.. I've had problems here with my smtp; not sure it went well) > > > > Hello, > > > > I've b

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Martinell
On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > (I must first start by apologizing if you've seen this post twice in > 12hrs.. I've had problems here with my smtp; not sure it went well) > > Hello, > > I've been unable to access any partition on /dev/hda since I've compiled > my own kernel