Re: partition detection problem

Rui Sousa (rsousa@grad.physics.sunysb.edu)
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 04:49:09 -0400


Shashidhar P Patil wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I compiled a new kernel for my 400 Mhz celeron with 6 GB IDE hard
> disk and 64Mb ram.
> The compiled kernel is not able to detect any partitions. It gets struck
> their. I enabled support
> for IDE disk and multiple device drivers. The kernel version is
> 2.2.5-15. Any suggestions
> for compiling.
>
> Thanks
> -Shashidhar
>
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Have you set all of this?
Block devices
Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
Generic PCI IDE chipset support (might be optional)
Filesystems
Second extended fs support

Rui Sousa

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