From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SLVwI-00089q-BP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:45:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 919D4E07EE; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:44:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F105E06EE for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Received: from mx-out-1.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.186]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0M2T00J3KMW8H2A0@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:43:20 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,458,1330902000"; d="scan'208";a="174104947" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:43:21 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id q3L8hKlt017767 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:43:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3A825C7 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:43:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:43:22 +0200 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] changed motherboard, no AHCI To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20120420092558.GB3359@ca.inter.net> <5909216.Pl1iQuuaXC@energy> <20120421021230.GA3368@ca.inter.net> <4F9225C3.4070305@coolmail.se> <20120421080226.GA3371@ca.inter.net> In-reply-to: <20120421080226.GA3371@ca.inter.net> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.4.90-18-g76680d4 Message-id: <1334997802.17002.0@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: 6a55ca8c-f83e-4f8d-b23a-6cc7b731f28f X-Archives-Hash: a543b309d82b3f359fe7b72aa4d701a2 On 04/21/2012 10:02:26 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 120421 pk wrote: > > On 2012-04-21 04:12, Philip Webb wrote: > >> It's an Asus P5G41T-M LX & the manual says : > > the chipset on that mobo is G41 (released in 2008) and it combines > > with ICH7 which unfortunately doesn't seem to support AHCI. > > That's important to hear, but it can't be a show-stopper, > as the 3 other Linux distro's I've mentioned have no problem. > I tried compiling AHCI as [M], which is what Mandriva + Ubuntu do, > but it makes no difference. There must be some other setting > their kernels use to identify the drive, which mine doesn't have set. > Can anyone suggest what other settings to try ? > I've looked at their kernel .config files, but nothing jumps out. > > At least, I've managed to compile + install a kernel > in a chroot using System Rescue, which I hadn't done before ! > Boot your system e.g. with SystemRescueCD then do lspci -k this shows you which module is in use. Then build your own kernel with this module. Helmut.