Thanks guys. I got it figured out last night with the help of someone on Gentoo IRC help. The drivers were compiled as modules, which only works if you have an initial ramdisk. Once I compiled the correct SATA driver into the kernel, it found the drive and allowed me to boot.
Jeff -----Original Message----- >From: Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Dec 14, 2007 8:27 AM >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel configuration problems > >On Friday 14 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: >> I am presently having problems compiling suspend2 kernel 2.6.22. >> It compiles with genkernel, but if I try to use make and customise a >> special kernel, it will not find my hard drive. The error message >> reports that the ide-cdrom on hda is the only drive present. >> >> The computer is a Toshiba L45-7409 laptop. >> Can anyone offer me any guidance as to which kernel options to >> engage, whether to use modules or compiled-in, etc. > >In all likelyhood this is the ata/libata thingy. > >Disable generic IDE/SCSI/SATA drivers and enable drivers specific to >your hardware. Read the help text for these items too. > >alan > >-- >Optimists say the glass is half full, >Pessimists say the glass is half empty, >Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? > >Alan McKinnon >alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za >+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five >-- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
