Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Saturday 04 September 2010 08:23:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Something seems screwed in your config. Try creating a new test user > and login with that one. See if it still happens there. You're right. I did that and info:grub was displayed properly in Konqueror. Now to find what's gone w

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 09/04/2010 01:31 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 03 September 2010 22:19:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:31:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Just open konqueror and where URLs go, just type in "man:ls" or "info:ls" and the man or info page will pop up. Yes, thanks, I can d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Friday 03 September 2010 22:19:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:31:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Just open konqueror and where URLs go, just type in "man:ls" or > > > "info:ls" and the man or info page will pop up. > > > > Yes, thanks, I can do that. I just wanted to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:31:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Just open konqueror and where URLs go, just type in "man:ls" or > > "info:ls" and the man or info page will pop up. > > Yes, thanks, I can do that. I just wanted to get my file associations > cleaned up. This isn't a file associatio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 03 September 2010 17:19:08 Dale wrote: Just open konqueror and where URLs go, just type in "man:ls" or "info:ls" and the man or info page will pop up. Yes, thanks, I can do that. I just wanted to get my file associations cleaned up. I read about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Friday 03 September 2010 17:19:08 Dale wrote: > Just open konqueror and where URLs go, just type in "man:ls" or > "info:ls" and the man or info page will pop up. Yes, thanks, I can do that. I just wanted to get my file associations cleaned up. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 199

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

on 09/03/2010 01:10 AM Peter Humphrey wrote the following: > On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> If you're on KDE you can also read info documents with a much nicer, >> hyperlinked interface. Either enter "info:grub" in krunner (Alt+F2, >> fastest way) or as a URL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Friday 03 September 2010 17:01:44 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/03/2010 06:54 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Friday 03 September 2010 00:57:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 09/03/2010 01:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 03 September 2010 00:57:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/03/2010 01:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you're on KDE you can also read info documents with a much nicer, hyperlinked i

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 09/03/2010 06:54 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 03 September 2010 00:57:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/03/2010 01:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you're on KDE you can also read info documents with a much nicer, hyperli

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Friday 03 September 2010 00:57:00 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/03/2010 01:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> If you're on KDE you can also read info documents with a much > >> nicer, hyperlinked interface. Either enter "info

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 09/03/2010 01:10 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you're on KDE you can also read info documents with a much nicer, hyperlinked interface. Either enter "info:grub" in krunner (Alt+F2, fastest way) or as a URL in Konqueror. Not he

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: If you're on KDE you can also read info documents with a much nicer, hyperlinked interface. Either enter "info:grub" in krunner (Alt+F2, fastest way) or as a URL in Konqueror. Not here. My firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Thursday 02 September 2010 10:38:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > If you're on KDE you can also read info documents with a much nicer, > hyperlinked interface. Either enter "info:grub" in krunner (Alt+F2, > fastest way) or as a URL in Konqueror. Not here. My firefox doesn't know what to do with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/02/2010 12:25 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: I was hoping for something like a man page or something tho. I would like to read up on this a little before jumping in head first. Does it have a little info on screen on what does what at least? I think th

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 09/02/2010 12:25 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: I was hoping for something like a man page or something tho. I would like to read up on this a little before jumping in head first. Does it have a little info on screen on what does what at least? I think the edit screen does but not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Dale writes: > I was hoping for something like a man page or something tho. I would > like to read up on this a little before jumping in head first. Does it > have a little info on screen on what does what at least? I think the > edit screen does but not sure about this part. Grub comes with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/02/2010 11:46 AM, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:12:45 -0500, Dale wrote: I would like either the old IDE drives to come first, since I rarely ever move them or grub to work with labels. I have a entry in grub.conf that uses the labels b

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 09/02/2010 11:46 AM, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:12:45 -0500, Dale wrote: I would like either the old IDE drives to come first, since I rarely ever move them or grub to work with labels. I have a entry in grub.conf that uses the labels but i have not rebooted yet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:12:45 -0500, Dale wrote: I would like either the old IDE drives to come first, since I rarely ever move them or grub to work with labels. I have a entry in grub.conf that uses the labels but i have not rebooted yet. According to what I have read

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:12:45 -0500, Dale wrote: > I would like either the old IDE drives to come first, since I rarely > ever move them or grub to work with labels. I have a entry in > grub.conf that uses the labels but i have not rebooted yet. According > to what I have read it will work. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/01/2010 03:38 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 12:49 PM, Dale wrote: Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them and what drive is what without act

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 09/01/2010 03:38 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 12:49 PM, Dale wrote: Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them and what drive is what without actually changing anything at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 12:49 PM, Dale wrote: Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all. Is there a boot option "noide"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Bill Longman wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Dale > wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Monday 30 August 2010, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Dani

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Monday 30 August 2010, Paul >> Hartman >> did opine thusly: >> >> >> >>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Daniel Pielmeier >>> wrote: >>> >>> Nikos Chantziaras schrieb am 27.08

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Alan McKinnon schrieb am 30.08.2010 18:32: > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Monday 30 August 2010, Paul Hartman > did opine thusly: > >> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >>> Afaik if you are using GRUB LEGACY (0.97) and want to use LABEL/UUID in >>> your grub.co

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Monday 30 August 2010, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Nikos Chantziaras schrieb am 27.08.2010 18:06: On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Monday 30 August 2010, Paul Hartman did opine thusly: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > Nikos Chantziaras schrieb am 27.08.2010 18:06: > >> On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> Actually, you can: > >>> http://www.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras schrieb am 27.08.2010 18:06: >> On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >>> Actually, you can: >>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot-rootfs/index.html >>> >>> (Read the section below "Use a la

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Sunday 29 August 2010 03:24:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/28/2010 10:42 PM, Dale wrote: > > Alex Schuster wrote: > >> Dale writes: > >>> It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. > >>> It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages > >>> tho.

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 08/28/2010 10:42 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages tho. I'd like this, too. cfdisk displays them, but is not abel to edit. I looked into

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/28/2010 04:36 PM, Dale wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 28.08.2010 13:13: P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. It is swap :) swappoff -a mkswap -L label device swapon -a I found that later while reading some other man page.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages tho. I'd like this, too. cfdisk displays them, but is not abel to edit. I looked into LVM a good while ago.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Dale writes: > It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. > It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages > tho. I'd like this, too. cfdisk displays them, but is not abel to edit. > I looked into LVM a good while ago. It's just to much for me to

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 08/28/2010 04:36 PM, Dale wrote: Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 28.08.2010 13:13: P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. It is swap :) swappoff -a mkswap -L label device swapon -a I found that later while reading some other man page. I got to look into that sw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Daniel Pielmeier wrote: Dale schrieb am 28.08.2010 13:13: P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. It is swap :) swappoff -a mkswap -L label device swapon -a I found that later while reading some other man page. I got to look into that swapon -a option tho.

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Dale writes: > Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: >> 2010/8/27 J. Roeleveld: >> >>> On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: > My theory is something like this: hda will become sda; hdb will become > sdb;

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Dale schrieb am 28.08.2010 13:13: > > P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. > It is swap :) swappoff -a mkswap -L label device swapon -a -- Daniel Pielmeier signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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Dale writes: > P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. mkswap hast the option -L for this. Wonko

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Dale wrote: Slight hiccup here: r...@smoker / # reiserfstune -l root /dev/hda6 reiserfstune: Reiserfstune is not allowed to be run on mounted filesystem. r...@smoker / # So, I have to do this from a CD/DVD. Well, once done, it is done. Dale :-) :-) Another hiccup for the record. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Mick wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2010 01:27:10 Stroller wrote: On 28 Aug 2010, at 00:06, Mick wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Hmmm, I use resie

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Saturday 28 August 2010 01:27:10 Stroller wrote: > On 28 Aug 2010, at 00:06, Mick wrote: > > On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote: > >> J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Stroller wrote: On 28 Aug 2010, at 00:06, Mick wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still use e2fsprogs to change those?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Nikos Chantziaras schrieb am 27.08.2010 18:06: > On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> Actually, you can: >> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot-rootfs/index.html >> >> (Read the section below "Use a label"): >> >> fstab: >> LABEL=ROOT / ext3defau

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 27 Aug 2010, at 17:06, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 17:57:01 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 28 Aug 2010, at 00:06, Mick wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still use e2fsprogs to change those? Nope: eve ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: > >> J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> > >> Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still > >> use e2fsprogs to change those? > > > > Nope: > > eve ~ # reiserfstu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 09:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 18:03:51 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 01:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Yet another way to use labels: When you make the fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 08/27/2010 09:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 27 August 2010 18:03:51 Bill Longman wrote: >> On 08/27/2010 01:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: > > > >> Yet another way to use labels: >> >> When you make the filesystem, apply the name then i.e.: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 08/27/2010 09:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Friday 27 August 2010 17:57:01 Bill Longman wrote: >>> On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Anyway, make sure you have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 08/27/2010 09:06 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> Actually, you can: >> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot-rootfs/index.html And this is similar to the syntax in the kernel's Documentation/intel_txt.txt file. >> (Read the section

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Friday 27 August 2010 18:03:51 Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/27/2010 01:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: > Yet another way to use labels: > > When you make the filesystem, apply the name then i.e.: > > mke2fs -j -L SpeedySSD /dev/sde1 > > then in your

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 08/27/2010 07:02 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 17:57:01 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That way, you won't be able to blo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 08/27/2010 01:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: >> I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to >> push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 >> motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Friday 27 August 2010 17:57:01 Bill Longman wrote: > On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That way, you > >> won't be able to blow anything up and can boot from i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That way, you >> won't be able to blow anything up and can boot from it in order to >> change your /etc/fstab and grub conf. > > Al

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still use e2fsprogs to change those? No, but you can use reiserfstune -l. Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA drivers? That way I can boot it and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 12:49 PM, Dale wrote: Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all. Is there a boot option "noide"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still use e2fsprogs to change those? Nope: eve ~ # reiserfstune --help reiserfstune: unrecognized option '--help' reiserfstune

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Am 27.08.2010 10:50, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > Applying labels to your filesystems is trivial. Simply use the e2label > utility (it's in the sys-fs/e2fsprogs package and installed by default, > so there's nothing new to emerge). For example, if your hda1 is your > root partition and your hda2

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 08/27/2010 12:49 PM, Dale wrote: Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all. Is there a boot option "noide" or some other switch I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Dale writes: > Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still > use e2fsprogs to change those? No, but you can use reiserfstune -l. > Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA > drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Friday 27 August 2010 11:00:58 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > >> 2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziaras: > >>> On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: > I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:00:58 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziaras: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/8/27 J. Roeleveld: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Friday 27 August 2010 11:00:58 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: > 2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziaras : > > On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: > >> I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to > >> push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziaras : > On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: >> >> I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to >> push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 >> motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE >> dr

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE drivers. This is what I have currently: hda Ac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

2010/8/27 J. Roeleveld : > On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: >> > Hi folks, >> > >> > I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to >> > push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to > > push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 > > motherboard with the older

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 motherboard with the older IDE drives. I'm still using the older IDE drivers. This is what I have current