Actually, I'm a gentoo user, so that's how I understand things.....

Don't know why it would be any different in debian if you are
compiling your own kernel.

-Josh


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:11:10 -0600, John T. Hoffoss
<john.t.hoffoss at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:04:06 -0600, Josh Close <narshe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think there is a kernel param you can pass when booting like doscsu
> > or something.
> >
> > If you get booted, go into your kernel config under
> >
> > Device Drivers -> SCSI Device Support ->SCSI low-level drivers
> >
> > and compile in anything that has VIA in it, especially the VIA SATA
> > drivers. Compile it in to make sure it's not a hotplug or module
> > loading issue.
> 
> Is there a trick to this? I'm comfortable with kernel compiling in
> Gentoo, but the one time I tried it in Debian, it didn't work out so
> well. Any Debianites have a howto, or know of one? (I've already
> wasted WAY too much time trying to get this to work for me.)
>