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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29 won't recognize my IDE chipset, at all.
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:42:56
Message-Id: 49D37D5D.9020406@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources-2.6.29 won't recognize my IDE chipset, at all. by Helmut Jarausch
1 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > On 1 Apr, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >> Hi,
5 >>
6 >> I been trying to upgrade my kernel and I seem to have ran into a huge
7 >> mountain. I finally got it to compile but when I try to boot it doesn't
8 >> recognize my IDE chipset at all. It only sees my CD and DVD but nothing
9 >> else.
10 >>
11 >> Here is some info: From lspci:
12 >>
13 >> 00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
14 >>
15 >> From the config screen of the kernel:
16 >>
17 >> <*> AMD and nVidia IDE support
18 >>
19 >> And that is the correct driver for my chipset. I been using that driver
20 >> for several years now.
21 >>
22 >> Is this kernel hopeless?
23 >>
24 >>
25 >
26 > Have you changed the hardware?
27 >
28 > In that case, try to
29 >
30 > rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent*
31 >
32 > and boot again.
33 >
34 > Helmut.
35 >
36 >
37
38 I finally got it to compile and boot up. I had to have missed something
39 in oldconfig or something was cleaned out during the make mrproper.
40 Anyway, I got it booted but the other problem with regard to compiling
41 the nvidia-drivers with this kernel still remains. Open to ideas on
42 the other thread on that issue.
43
44 I hope I don't have to save up and buy a newer video card just to update
45 my kernel. o_O
46
47 Dale
48
49 :-) :-)