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Thanks guys. |
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I got it figured out last night with the help of someone on Gentoo IRC help. |
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The drivers were compiled as modules, which only works if you have an initial ramdisk. |
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Once I compiled the correct SATA driver into the kernel, it found the drive and allowed me to boot. |
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Jeff |
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-----Original Message----- |
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>From: Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> |
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>Sent: Dec 14, 2007 8:27 AM |
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>To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems |
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>On Friday 14 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: |
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>> I am presently having problems compiling suspend2 kernel 2.6.22. |
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>> It compiles with genkernel, but if I try to use make and customise a |
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>> special kernel, it will not find my hard drive. The error message |
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>> reports that the ide-cdrom on hda is the only drive present. |
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>> The computer is a Toshiba L45-7409 laptop. |
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>> Can anyone offer me any guidance as to which kernel options to |
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>> engage, whether to use modules or compiled-in, etc. |
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>In all likelyhood this is the ata/libata thingy. |
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>Disable generic IDE/SCSI/SATA drivers and enable drivers specific to |
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>your hardware. Read the help text for these items too. |
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>alan |
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>-- |
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>Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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>Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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>Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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>Alan McKinnon |
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>alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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>+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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