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  • From: "Mathieu L." <lejatorn AT smgl.homelinux.net>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] booting problem
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 18:56:20 +0200

Thanks :)

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:48:59AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
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> Mathieu L. wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've got a booting problem which lets me clueless and maybe some of you
> > would have a hint about it.
> > As it is, because of my server's old bios or whatever the cause, the
> > bios won't see my 40GB hd, so the only way I found to use it was to put
> > a small hd with only /boot on it. That allows me to go as far as grub,
> > which in turn is able to use my 40 hdd as root even though the bios
> > doesn't see it.
> >
> > My problem is, I've just rebuilt a new kernel (2.6.17.1) which simply
> > refuses to use the 40GB hdd as root, it says it doesn't exist. Whereas
> > it's working fine with the other kernel (2.6.8.1) with the exact same
> > boot line (except for the 'kernel' directive of course).
> > So, would you have any idea of what I could have missed in the new
> > kernel's conf that causes that behaviour?
>
> Probably an IDE device driver for your motherboard. Check the diff
> between /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1/.config and /usr/src/linux-2.6.17.1/.config.
>
> You may want to copy the .config from 2.6.8.1 into 2.6.17.1/.config and
> then run `make oldconfig` to update the .config file to 2.6.17.1.
>
> - -sandalle
>
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