<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 01:33, Frank Guibert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frank.guibert@gmail.com">frank.guibert@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2009/9/10 Stephen Pirk <<a href="mailto:steve@pirk.com">steve@pirk.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> That is what I thought. Pretty cool running aserver in a window, but I could<br>
> not get the mouse out, so the laptop was "locked" for the night long build.<br>
><br>
> Yeah, I am seeing all this now. Slack _should_ just install, but it cannot<br>
> find the IDE drive. Verra strange. I used dd to copy the qume image to a sd<br>
> card, and poped it in. Same result: "operating system not found". I even<br>
> installed from the slack 13 dvd iso and the install went fine, but no boot.<br>
><br>
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</div></div>Hi Stephen,<br>
<br>
I installed Slackware 13 on a fit-pc 2 (Intel Atom Z530) and I had the<br>
same problem, it couldn't see the ide hard drive.<br>
<br>
Like you I tried without success to pass "ide generic" options to the kernel...<br>
<br>
I sorted out the problem by recompiling the kernels (both the kernel<br>
used by the Slack installer 2.6.29.6 and afterwards my "daily" kernel<br>
using 2.6.30.5) and adding pata_sch support (CONFIG_PATA_SCH=y in the<br>
.config file).<br>
<br>
Basically the pata_sch support has to be either built into your<br>
kernel (or into the initrd...I don't use initrd would that work ??<br>
would that be a simpler way of adding pata_sch support on boot ??)<br>
otherwise the kernel won't be able to access your root partition when<br>
you boot.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
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Frank<br>
<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>Wow, that is very good news to hear. Let me sort out the best way to do this. Maybe I can build a kernel here on my sony laptop with that switch, and then put that kernel on the install dvd. Can you add a file to an iso image, or would I need to add it to the iso tree and then burn a new install disk from there. I will give it a try.<br>
<br>I was beginning to think the laptop was bad. Was just getting ready to try and load win xp pro to see if it would boot at all, even fedora 11 fails now. It finds the disk to install on, but I get a "no operating system" error all the time.<br>
<br>Thanks Frank!<br clear="all">-steve<br>-- <br>steve pirk<br><a href="http://refiamerica.org">refiamerica.org</a><br>"father... the sleeper has awakened..." paul atreides - dune<br>