On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:36:20PM -0600, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:11:10PM -0600, John T. Hoffoss 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.) > > apt-get install fakeroot kernel-package libncurses5-dev > #extract kernel > #configure kernel > fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=custom1 kernel-image > #get coffee > su - > dpkg -i ../kernel-image-$VER_custom1_i386.deb Sounds complicated. # wget kernel.org/linux-foo.tbz2 # extract # zcat /proc/config.gz > .config ; make menuconfig # make install modules_install -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050311/164ab29f/attachment.pgp