Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-18 Thread Richard Fish
C R. Little wrote: >I recomplied all intel and promise modules into the kernel and it loads the >drivers on boot. But to fix the problem completely. I changed root=/dev/ram0 >to root=/dev/sda3 and removed real_root=/dev/sda3. > >what is is the root=/dev/ram0 for? Is it needed? > > > The "root

RE: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-18 Thread C R. Little
: Andrew Potter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:10 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help C R. Little wrote: >For some reason I don't think the kernel is loading the right drivers for the >SATA controller. &

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-17 Thread Andrew Potter
C R. Little wrote: >For some reason I don't think the kernel is loading the right drivers for the >SATA controller. > I had this problem with my laptop. Compile all the promise and all theintel device modules into your kernel (Not as modules). Reboot and it should pick it up. Then start removing

RE: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-16 Thread C R. Little
A not SCSI I -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 11:16 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help On Mon, May 16, 2005 4:58 pm, C R. Little said: > That didn't seem to work ei

RE: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, May 16, 2005 4:58 pm, C R. Little said: > That didn't seem to work either. I tried (hd1,3) which should be / but > that didn't work either Go into the GRUB shell and type find /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 to see which GRUB device contains your /boot partition. looking at your setup, I would

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-16 Thread Richard Fish
Peter Ruskin wrote: >On Monday 16 May 2005 16:19, C R. Little wrote: > > >>title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r8 >>root (hd1,0) >> >> >-- >You could try changing this to root (hd1,1) > > No, don't do this The grub root entry is to specify where grub's files are. Since /boot is the fi

RE: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-16 Thread C R. Little
That didn't seem to work either. I tried (hd1,3) which should be / but that didn't work either -Original Message- From: Peter Ruskin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 10:50 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-p

[gentoo-user] SATA Boot problem-please help

2005-05-16 Thread C R. Little
Title: SATA Boot problem-please help grub.conf- default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r8 root (hd1,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=8192 vga=0x318 splash=verbose udev initrd /initrd-2.6.11-gen