Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29 won't recognize my IDE chipset, at all.

[Dale]

Hung Dang wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>
>> Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On  1 Apr, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I been trying to upgrade my kernel and I seem to have ran into a huge
>>>> mountain.  I finally got it to compile but when I try to boot it doesn't
>>>> recognize my IDE chipset at all.  It only sees my CD and DVD but nothing
>>>> else.
>>>>
>>>> Here is some info:  From lspci:
>>>>
>>>> 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
>>>>
>>>> From the config screen of the kernel:
>>>>
>>>> <*>   AMD and nVidia IDE support
>>>>
>>>> And that is the correct driver for my chipset.  I been using that driver
>>>> for several years now.
>>>>
>>>> Is this kernel hopeless?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Have you changed the hardware?
>>>
>>> In that case, try to
>>>
>>> rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent*
>>>
>>> and boot again.
>>>
>>> Helmut.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> No hardware change at all.  To broke to do any of that right now.  I am
>> currently starting a new kernel from scratch.  I ran make mrproper and
>> all his friends and started from scratch.  I'm hoping that I am just
>> missing something in oldconfig.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>>
>>
> Could you check if the of your hard drives are changed from /dev/hd* to
> /dev/sd*. If that is the case you may need  to update your /etc/fstab
> and may be the boot loader.
>
> Hung
>
>
>

After recompiling from a scratch built kernel, it boots fine.  I suspect
I messed up during make oldconfig or something was cleaned out by
mrproper.  It does work now tho.

Still can't build my nvidia drivers tho.  That is on another thread.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)