Alex, > Just a thought (while we're at it): how come a lousy 2.4.2 rescue floppy can > get to my IDE drives (read/write) without my using any special HDD driver > machinations?
This may not be *the* answer to your problem, but just some notes to consider for future reference. Every kernel's default configuration enables a certain number of drivers to be built-in and a number to be modules. This set of enabled drivers is not always the same from kernel to kernel. It's therefore possible that your 2.4.2 kernel had different defaults than the one you are currently using. Meaning you need to reconfigure your current kernel to include the necessary IDE and SCSI drivers to match your hardware. And if they are already selected, make sure they are not modules. While your kernel is booting up, pay close attention to its output. If your harddrive controller is recognized by a built-in driver, you'll see this on the output. When a physical disk is recognized, it will print out a line with the partitions it found (it'll print lines like hda1 hda2 hda3 or the sd variety). If you don't see anything matching your current harddrive configuration you can be fairly sure the kernel you compiled does not have the drivers necessary built-in. Just a reminder also - when you compiled a new kernel, don't forget to copy the actual kernel images to the /boot directory. Many people often reconfigure and recompile the kernel and then don't actually install it by copying the image. So you keep rebooting your *old* kernel expecting different results. Gerard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
