On Wednesday 04 November 2009 03:46:54 Harry Putnam wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> writes: > > your drivers for the ide disks have to be built INTO THE KERNEL! NOT > > MODULES. > > Is that really a hard rule? I've done it both ways successfully in the > past. >
If you do not use an initrd|initramfs, then the drivers for the chipset and the filesystem on / do need to be built into the kernel. The drivers are on the disk and the kernel needs to read the drivers from the disk to read the disk to get the drivers :-) chicken and egg. If you use an initrd/initramfs or have genkernel make one for you, then the drivers are on that ramdisk and the kernel can see and load them so all is well. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
