Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:24:24
Message-Id: 20110121212237.2dcb9944@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] AHCI/IDE-question by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:45:07 +0100, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
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3 > I did an experiment an disabled AHCI in the kernel (to make the kernel
4 > settings consistent with the BIOS.)
5 >
6 > Result: The kernel did not find the root partition.
7 >
8
9 You disabled the driver for your hard disk controller and you wonder why
10 the kernel cannot find the hard disk? Did you remember to build in
11 support for the specific chipset drivers?
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14 --
15 Neil Bothwick
16
17 ... Never say anything more predictive than "Watch this!"