On Sunday 12 September 2010 01:15:56 walt wrote: > On 09/11/2010 11:24 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday 11 September 2010 18:50:04 Mick wrote: > >> Deselect that which is deprecated and will be removed soon > > > > I hope it won't. I have one box whose drives the new drivers cannot > > detect - at least, nothing I've tried has worked so far. > > That seems very odd. Is there something exotic about those drives?
Nothing at all. Bog-standard IDE disk and ATA CD-ROM in a Compaq Evo P4 box. The disk controller is an Intel 82801DB ICH4 according to lspci. > The new driver sees the controller but the controller doesn't see > the drives? Grub (or do I mean init?) can't find a kernel to boot. > Or, if the kernel doesn't see the controller then maybe consider > adding the SATA_AHCI driver as a test. I think the box predates AHCI, though it may be worth a try. I don't remember now which options I did try when I was trying to get the new kernel drivers to work. > I'm still a bit confused when trying to figure out which controller > uses which driver, but I've been tripped up with that particular > driver before. Yes, me too. I have one box on which I had to switch AHCI off in the BIOS to enable the installation CD to boot, then back on again to boot the installed system. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
