Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Nov 1996 06:42:46 -0600 (CST) | From | Jason Burrell <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.8 fails to boot |
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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> Jason Burrell wrote: > > > > 2.1.8 fails to boot, giving a "hdb: no driver present" message. > > Presumably, this means it can't find the ext2fs driver. However, I went > > back and checked, and the ext2fs was compiled into the kernel, not as a > > module. I downgraded to 2.0.25, but I'm curious whether this is a known > > problem or not. > > This is not a problem of ext2fs. It's not even a bug. You just forgot to > look through make menuconfig/config/xconfig :-) > > The IDE driver has been split into several parts, one including generic > support > and others including harddisk, cdrom, tape, floppy support. Just compile > it with harddisk support and you'll have no problems :)
This pretty much sums it up. I was a complete moron and somehow missed the new options in the disk config three seperate times. I should start getting more sleep or something. ;)
Appologies for spamming the list, and thanks to all those that replied.
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