Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 01:28:23AM +0000, Deadly Earnest wrote: >><snip>
> 2. The CD has to boot from a CD : 99% of the time they are attached > to IDE controllers. Your fresh build has to boot from whatever > IDE/SATA drive is in your machine. For IDE the CD probably covers > most, or all, of the options but for SATA you need to pick all the > right selection(s) and build them in. So, if you are using a SATA > disk, what sort of controller is it on ? Did you specify it as > /dev/sdaX in the fstab ? (some of the earlier SATA drivers used to > pretend to be hd instead of sd, I think). Have you selected > CONFIG_SCSI, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD ? And CONFIG_ATA plus a suitable > driver ? Also, IIRC, some BIOS allow the sata to act as IDE. Those BIOS settings may affect what you need to do. If he gets far enough that fstab has an effect, then dmesg should let him see what the kernel things it has for HDs. <CTL-ALT-F?>? > > I'm tempted to suggest that your original .config (orinoco not > working, unable to power down) might be a better place to start > because at least it boots. Probably, diffing the two configs will > show you something interesting (and a _lot_ of noise :-( ). > Powering down needs either acpi or apm on x86 - I've no idea how > recent your box is, older machines have had lots of problems with > acpi over the years, and I think there is a config option to limit > acpi to very-recent machines (by the date of the bios). Recent > machines probably should NOT have apm selected. Further, one must not select both IIRC. > > A quick google/linux for orinoco suggests they use cardbus cards - > (those old things that plug into the side of a notebook) - did you > build pcmciautils (apparently, it replaces pcmcia-cs for 2.6 > kernels) ? As I said, I've no idea if you need that, but missing > userspace helper applications will certainly cause things to not > work. > > ĸen -- Wit -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
