On Wednesday 30 November 2005 17:22, maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everybody,
hi! > > I note NV_SATA, SIL_SATA, CONFIG_FORCEDETH and > whatever other options are no longer offered in make > menuconfig for the stage3 tarballed kernel 2.6.12-r6 > or for the latest 2.6.14-r2. These are precisely the > options my board, Asus K8NE w/nVidia and Sil3114, > requires for SATA drives and the onboard ethernet. > > When the PC boots, and it _does_ boot off /dev/sda2, > it can't detect /dev/sda6 where / lives and crashes > just at the point of detecting it: > ... > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda6" or > unknown-block(0,0) > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root > fs on unknown-block(0,0) > > Ah, but those very drivers are in the kernel used by > the LiveCD to boot. Plus, they're part of the config > file it uses. > > What gives? I note the config options include > CONFIG_SCSI_SATA under low-level SCSI drivers; is that > all that's required. > > Also a very curious file in /usr/portage/distfiles: > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-10=6626-pkg1.run. Anybody know what > this is for? No ebuilds correspond to it as far as I > can tell although it must be part of some package or > other. I cant help you for your SATA problem, but this file seems to be an nvidia linux drivers installer. Its used buy nvidia-kernel or nvidia-glx to allow full 3D acceleration in X with an nvidia card. > > -mw > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com -- [email protected] mailing list
