Charles Any assistance is appreciated, but don't bust a gut - if the worst comes to the worst I'll use a Dell Dimension for the PC or figure out how to use Dachstein properly.
I used the 2.2.19-3-LEAF-normal-IDE.zImage.upx from your site as the image to get IDE going on the box. This has all the IDE stuff compiled in right? No need for modules. On Bering I load ide-mod,ide-disk and ide-probe-mod from /boot/lib/modules using the initrd package as per the Bering Docs. I believe the config file for Jacques' Bering kernel is available on the LEAF site somewhere. Given I've tried it on a range of kit from 486 up to PIII 450MHz, the problem doesn't seem to be hardware related. I haven't tried putting two hard disks on the same channel yet. I think what I also need to do is to work out what is the least amount of info I need to put in Dachstein networks.conf to get a single interface running on eth0 with no firewall, routing, etc. I commented so much out this afternoon in a hurry that I've messed it up. I'm going to replace it with the original at work tomorrow and start reading the docs. I'll also start looking at a development environment for Bering. I feel a kernel compile around the corner. Many thanks Darren On Wednesday 17 Jul 2002 9:04 pm, you wrote: > > I tried Dachstein this afternoon and this works with both devices on > > the same > > > IDE channel, unfortunately I've messed up the network settings for the > > moment. Ideally I'd like to stick with Bering as that is where most of > > my > > > experience is. The question is: is this likely to be a kernel issue? > > Probably a kernel level driver issue. Which modules and/or kernel are > you using with Dachstein that works? IIRC (I'd have to look at the > .config files to be sure), if you are installing IDE modules at run-time > with Dachstein, they are *NOT* doing any advanced chipset or DMA > support, while if you use the kernel with IDE compiled in, lots more > fancy IDE stuff is enabled. This could be at least one major source of > difference, besides the 2.2 vs 2.4 kernel. > > > Am I not loading enough modules? - I have the standard IDE stuff in > > /boot/lib/modules > > > plus vfat. > > I'm not real familiar with the 2.4 kernels...you might check the > Documentation directory of a 2.4.<whatever Bering uses> source tree and > see if you can gleen any info about the various IDE drivers. I'd think > you *SHOULD* be able to get your 486 system to work with 2.4 if it works > with the Dachstein 2.2 kernel...the 486 era systems had the simplest IDE > interfaces (no DMA, no high-speed transfer modes, just a couple of > chip-select-decodes of the disk controller address space and some bus > transcievers). If not, it definately sounds like a bug... > > > Anyone got any similar experiences? had success? I suspect I'm on > > my own here. > > No experience or success here, but I'll still try to help :-P > > Charles Steinkuehler > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net > http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
