> OK, I've had a hard day, and I'm trying to wind down, but this > DOES NOT COMPUTE :-)
Sorry about your bad day, but you're not alone. I've hacked this for at least 3 days now at work (and not even doing my job) ;) >Comments about 2.4 are either irrelevant or mistaken (i.e. you >meant '2.6'). > For current 2.6, parrallel libata uses /dev/sd? to >refer to IDE drives. It's also not yet recommended for production - >I'm not suggesting you should drop it (people do need to test new >developments), but if you think you _have_to_ refer to IDE drives as >/dev/sd? to get them working properly, you probably have very >obscure, or extremely new, hardware ? Probably (actually now) irrelevant. I did mean 2.4, however, the HD with the 2.4 is out of the box so I couldn't verify much. I could have sworn in 2.4 I had IDE working but the drive would pause now and then to perform swapping, flushes, who knows what. Once I put in SATA support (in 2.4) the drive performed as it should. >Most people can get IDE drives working ok as /dev/hd? at the >moment. Please try _not_ using parrallel libata in your kernel >config (and refer to /dev/hda in /etc/fstab) to get something that >works. After that, you can play with parrallel libata if you wish >(although the dynamic selection of device names in /etc/fstab will >be 'interesting", which is why fedora mounts by label). I had early on. The inclusion of parallel libata was an experiment that had identical results to not including it...so I didn't sweat it. Either way, a big ###### ####### # # ### # # # # # # ### # # # # # # ### # # # # ####### # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### ###### ####### # # ### goes to me. Here is the story behind it: In my efforts to boot originally, the device was not seen because I didn't include the Intel PIIX option for IDE. While find this out, I decided to remove "extra" stuff from the kernel...this included NIC, audio, video, etc. Well, by NIC, I mean full networking support. Guess what? The kernel sends UEvents via unix domain sockets which in the kernel are included (guess!)...in the networking subsystem. I'll say it again: ###### ####### # # ### # # # # # # ### # # # # # # ### # # # # ####### # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### ###### ####### # # ### Once networking (including domain sockets) along with my IDE and PIIX options were compiled in...booting was successful. Thanks everyone for your help! --------------- David A. Gershman [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's all about the path!" --d. gershman -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
