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On Friday 15 October 2010 11:40:34 am Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> *All* of the drivers could be too much. There is a generic driver which |
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> can prevent the "right" driver from taking over. In that case you end up |
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> with a /dev/hda node and no DMA. Try to deactivate "Generic ATA support" |
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> = CONFIG_ATA_GENERIC and "generic/default IDE chipset support" = |
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> CONFIG_IDE_GENERIC. |
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I will try this. |
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> I think it is the second option that causes that problem. However, you |
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> won't need the first option, either. |
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Ya, I don't like having EVERYTHING in the kernel, but nothing else was |
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working, so I figured I'd give it a try. |
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> Instead of your brute-force "yes to all" approach, newer kernels also |
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> support `make localyesconfig` which takes all modules currently used in |
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> the running kernel and compiles them into the new kernel. It is very |
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> helpful when you already have a good but generic kernel like the one on |
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> your live CD. |
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Oh now this is cool. Thank you. I'll try this, also. |
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> If even that doesn't help, it might be possible that the device |
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> numbering has changed and your hard disk is detected as /dev/sdb or so. |
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> Try mounting it by UUID (google for it, please). |
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I've tried changing grub to point to sdb and hda. Perhaps, I need to change |
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etc/fstab... |
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Thank you. |
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> Hope this helps, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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Take care and have fun, |
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Mike Diehl. |
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