On Wednesday 24 December 2008 22:28, Rony wrote:
> --- Block devices ? ? > ? ? <M> Normal floppy disk support ? ? > ? ? <M> XT hard disk support ? ? > ? ? <M> ATA over Ethernet support ? ? > ? ? [ ] Very old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver ] Very old hard > disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver > This is the page for block devices. There is hardly any entry for > generic IDE devices. Do I have the wrong source? General setup- Device Drivers ---> [*] Block devices ---> Then the next entry <*> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support ---> inside the above a submenu for <*> generic/default IDE chipset support This is from 2.6.27.6. But afair the menu options for our area of interest hasnt changed in years. If it does not appear here something is wrong with your .config. make clean;make mrproper will clean up everything including .config. You will now have to redo the whole thing manually, a very educating process, and a strongly recommended experience. A year or so ago I could not get SATA booting without initrd, inspite of compiling in kernel sata. I simply coud not figure out what was wrong. However a few weeks later i used a newer kernel and recompiled from scratch and everything worked. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
