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With 2.6.14-rc5, and 2.6.14-archck5, all the other usual options for the |
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motherboard chipsets are still there under SCSI low-level drivers (with make |
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xconfig). |
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On Wed November 30 2005 9:37 pm, Ryan Tandy wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 17:22, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> >>Hello everybody, |
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> > |
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> >hi! |
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> > |
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> >>I note NV_SATA, SIL_SATA, CONFIG_FORCEDETH and |
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> >>whatever other options are no longer offered in make |
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> >>menuconfig for the stage3 tarballed kernel 2.6.12-r6 |
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> >>or for the latest 2.6.14-r2. These are precisely the |
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> >>options my board, Asus K8NE w/nVidia and Sil3114, |
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> >>requires for SATA drives and the onboard ethernet. |
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> >> |
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> >>When the PC boots, and it _does_ boot off /dev/sda2, |
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> >>it can't detect /dev/sda6 where / lives and crashes |
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> >>just at the point of detecting it: |
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> >>... |
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> >>VFS: Cannot open root device "sda6" or |
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> >>unknown-block(0,0) |
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> >>Please append a correct "root=" boot option |
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> >>Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root |
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> >>fs on unknown-block(0,0) |
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> >> |
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> >>Ah, but those very drivers are in the kernel used by |
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> >>the LiveCD to boot. Plus, they're part of the config |
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> >>file it uses. |
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> >> |
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> >>What gives? I note the config options include |
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> >>CONFIG_SCSI_SATA under low-level SCSI drivers; is that |
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> >>all that's required. |
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> >> |
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> >>Also a very curious file in /usr/portage/distfiles: |
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> >>NVIDIA-Linux-x86-10=6626-pkg1.run. Anybody know what |
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> >>this is for? No ebuilds correspond to it as far as I |
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> >>can tell although it must be part of some package or |
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> >>other. |
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> |
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> Either CONFIG_FORCEDETH still exists, or in the 7 or so hours since I |
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> last synced a new kernel has come out that doesn't have it. I found it |
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> under Device Drivers->Network Devices->Ethernet cards (10 and 100 |
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> Mbit)->PCI and built-in. |
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> No idea about the SATA stuff, sorry. |
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> |
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> The nVidia file is the proprietary package for nvidia-driver (or |
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> whatever the pkg name is) version 66.26, in case no one else mentioned |
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> it yet. |
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> |
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> >>-mw |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >>__________________________________ |
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> >>Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 |
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> >>http://mail.yahoo.com |
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