Re: Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-03 Thread J.F. Gratton
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:45 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > J.F. Gratton wrote: > > - I know my hardware, it's unlikely to change in a near-future; a new > > kernel is more likely to come out thant my hardware to change; why using > > an initrd then if I know exactly what need

Initrd or not ? (was: SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD)

2006-01-03 Thread J.F. Gratton
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:09 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > J.F. Gratton wrote: > > solved, but not at my full satisfaction... > > > > I compiled the kernel with initrd support and it went fine, using a > > 2.6.12-10 config file. > > > > I ther

SOLVED: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread J.F. Gratton
for the distro to issue one), but hey.. one cannot win everywhere :) Thanks to everyone who tried to help me out. -- Jeff On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 09:53 -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > (I must first start by apologizing if you

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread J.F. Gratton
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 06:32 +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > > > > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > Well I tried your (Michael and Paul's) ways (which, btw used to be the > [...] > > > > A bit of info I did not have -because I did no

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread J.F. Gratton
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 10:03 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 09:53:38AM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: > > > > On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: > > > (I must first start by apologizing if you've seen this post twice in > &g