Re: [gentoo-desktop] System problems

[Brent Busby <brent@keycorner.org>]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Lindsay Haisley wrote:

> I don't know.  According to the the ebuild notes with udev, the IDE 
> facility in the kernel is completely depricated and needs to be turned 
> off entirely to prevent unexpected results.  If I build IDE as a 
> module, my concern is that the module will get auto-loaded and I'll be 
> back in the same boat.  So I'll use a more recent kernel and turn IDE 
> off altogether and we'll see what happens.

Yes, turn the whole Pata section off.  After that, everything should be 
recognizable with "sd" rather than "hd" device names, in both Grub and 
/etc/fstab.  Also, to save yourself trouble, build the drivers for the 
Sata subsystem and your particular controller chipset into the kernel, 
and forget about initrd's.  The only thing they're good for is distros 
that have to run on whatever they're booting up on.  The minute you have 
to compile your own kernel to suit yourself, you might as well get rid 
of the hassle of initrd's while you're at it.

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