** Paul Tansom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-24 14:07]: > ** Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-10-24 13:22]: > > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 13:04 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: > > > I've tried using 'all_generic_ide', but not had any success. I'm working > > > on the basis that I need to load the pata_it821x driver that supports > > > the card the drive is connected to into the ramdisk at boot time. > > > > Tried using:- > > > > ata_piix.blacklist=yes > > > > On boot up? > ** end quote [Alan Pope] > > I have now :) > > I've not quite got my head around editing the grub boot options at boot > time. If I change a line completely or add a new line it causes it to > reboot and default back to the pre-edited version, so I can only add > bits to the end of the lines (so the o and O options to ad lines seem to > be of no use at all!), and for some reason I have 'quiet' listed twice, > once on its own line and once at the end of the main kernel line. I'm > assuming the second is for booting off the ramdisk, so linked to the > initrd line, but not entirely sure why it gets a line all to itself! > > I guess it all comes of things usually working fine and therefore not > having to mess around with the grub boot stuff that often - if it's > never broken I've not had to disect it before :) ** end quote [Paul Tansom]
Nuts, I forgot to add that when I drop to a grub command line and try: find /boot/grub/stage1 it correctly reports (hd0,1), which is a little puzzling since to all intents and purposes the boot is unaware of the hd, but is accurate given that my /boot is on my root partition which is the second partition on the drive (the first being Windows XP Pro). -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
