Re: [gentoo-user] no more NV_SATA, etc support in kernel?

[Charly]

On Wednesday 30 November 2005 17:22, maxim wexler wrote:
> Hello everybody,

hi!
>
> I note NV_SATA, SIL_SATA, CONFIG_FORCEDETH and
> whatever other options are no longer offered in make
> menuconfig for the stage3 tarballed kernel 2.6.12-r6
> or for the latest 2.6.14-r2. These are precisely the
> options my board, Asus K8NE w/nVidia and Sil3114,
> requires for SATA drives and the onboard ethernet.
>
> When the PC boots, and it _does_ boot off /dev/sda2,
> it can't detect /dev/sda6 where / lives and crashes
> just at the point of detecting it:
> ...
> VFS: Cannot open root device "sda6" or
> unknown-block(0,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root
> fs on unknown-block(0,0)
>
> Ah, but those very drivers are in the kernel used by
> the LiveCD to boot. Plus, they're part of the config
> file it uses.
>
> What gives? I note the config options include
> CONFIG_SCSI_SATA under low-level SCSI drivers; is that
> all that's required.
>
> Also a very curious file in /usr/portage/distfiles:
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-10=6626-pkg1.run. Anybody know what
> this is for?  No  ebuilds correspond to it as far as I
> can tell although it must be part of some package or
> other.
I cant help you for your SATA problem, but this file seems to be an nvidia 
linux drivers installer. Its used buy nvidia-kernel or nvidia-glx to allow 
full 3D acceleration in X with an nvidia card.


>
> -mw
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