On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 03:42:03PM -0500, alex lupu wrote: > > 5. Consequently, if a generous soul can just offer a similar hint, > in this instance, I'll be much appreciative: > "Hey dummy! Don't you know that when you move to Ivy Bridge > and H77, you have to change/add in 'xxxxxx' (kernel configuration?) > this and that for your system to boot up at all!!!" > Then I hope to be able to do my own heavy lifting from there on. > > Thank you, > -- Alex I very much doubt that _this_ problem is directly related to the Ivy Bridge. I would prefer to categorise it as "I got a new motherboard - some things don't work with my old kernel".
Using your knoppix CD (or any other LiveCD), run lsmod to see what modules are loaded. Make a note of all of them, and then google them and look in the menuconfig help when building a kernel. I'm guessing that one (or more) of your disk-control chips have changed [ on my i3 two of the SATA connectors use a very different controller from the others - fortunately, I'd only connected the CD to that, and I'd built a "generic" kernel with everything I *guessed* might be needed, so it still booted but the CD didn't show up ]. You might, once it boots, get a similar problem with the network adaptor. Probably, any hardware module which gets loaded by a Live CD should be built-in to your kernel, certainly that is true for the disk controller drivers (because we don't use initrds). For network cards, modules are usually adequate - I tend to just make every likely network driver as a module, in the hope that something will stick on a new machine :) Once it works, you can fine-tune it, check that all of userspace is working (e.g. sound, xorg), and rebuild it until you are happy. For the avoidance of my own doubt, once a machine mostly works I tend to leave non-critical kernel .config changes until I'm applying a new kernel patch. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
