Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Monday 26 July 2010 19:04:16 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Peter Humphrey writes:
> > On Monday 26 July 2010 16:13:19 Mick wrote:
> > > On 26 July 2010 15:11, Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > > > So udev is wrong in saying CONFIG_IDE should not be set - on that
> > > > old P4 box it has to be to get ICH4 drivers.
> > > 
> > > Hmm, did you try ATA_PIIX, or PATA_MPIIX, or PATA_SCH?
> > 
> > I've just tried it again now, to make sure, and the answer's "yes". I
> > set all of those, and I tried adding PATA_OLDPIIX to see if it helped.
> > It didn't, and neither did the others, so I'll have to go back to
> > CONFIG_IDE.
> 
> Isn't there also some other SCSI stuff (which does not get selected
> automatically), necessary to make the new ATA drivers actually work?

You mean:

Device Drivers  ---> 
 Generic Driver Options  --->
  <*> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers  --->
    [*] ATA SFF support

    Symbol: ATA [=y] 
    Prompt: Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers

I also have a P4 but I haven't yet switched off the deprecated drivers.  Will 
have a go later in the week and see what gives.
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Regards,
Mick

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