jtd wrote: > 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. > > Will definitely try it out.
-- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
