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 1PMjwo-0006Vr-T0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:17:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4429E0655; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C4A1E0655 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E2DDEBD3 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:16:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dzURRu7TkmWk for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:16:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from humphrey.ukfsn.org (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BF2DEB7E for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:16:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:16:55 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.5.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C4B45B2.4000508@konstantinhansen.de> <4C50736D.2080302@gmail.com> <201007291239.46593.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <201007291239.46593.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> 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 Message-Id: <201011281616.55866.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dfd7bd8c-35bb-4698-8e10-584cabf8af15 X-Archives-Hash: d327ab8782f4fa6fcafdd76f26e2b3dd On Thursday 29 July 2010 12:39:46 I wrote: > On Wednesday 28 July 2010 19:14:05 Bill Longman wrote: > > In the Device Drivers section, (this is for 2.6.34!), turn OFF the > > deprecated ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support. That corresponds to > > CONFIG_IDE in your .config. Then, turn ON, Serial ATA and Parallel > > ATA drivers which corresponds to CONFIG_ATA in your .config. Then, > > under Serial ATA, you'll need to turn on ATA SFF and then Intel > > ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support. > > But bear in mind that setting these does not produce a bootable > kernel on my P4 box, as I've said in another thread, so it's > possible that making the suggested changes will introduce more fog > rather than dispelling it. I'm not sure how likely it is though. For the record, this is now fixed. Eventually (this morning) I found a chipset option buried in the kernel config that I'd missed. The IDE disk is now /dev/sda and I can forget about /dev/hda and friends altogether. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.