HD not detected update

[Kerry Hoath]

Also catting /proc/pci when the machine boots would tell you what sort of controller
if the kernel knows about it.
It should show up as an unknown mass storage controller if it doesn't.

Regards, Kerry.
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:30:12PM -0500, Tommy Moore wrote:
> Hi Chuck. The only other thing I can think of that could cause the install 
> disk ot not find the hard drive would be that the controler that the drive 
> runs on isn't supported by the installation kernel. Do you know what 
> motherboard your friend has in her machine? Maybe there's some info on the 
> slackware site about installing on machines with that particular mother 
> board. Another way you can test is to put the drive your going to install 
> on to in the machine by itself and boot and this will tell you if its a 
> problem with the drive or the kernel not detecting the controler.
> if slackware has udma66 boot disks this is what you'll probably want to 
> use though. Been a while since I've installed slackware so I don't know if 
> they have a disk for this like debian does.
> If your needing to add speakup in to that kernel for making a talking boot 
> disk download the kernel source tree that slackware uses and in the 
> kernels directory on the cd it should have directories for all the kernels 
> slack supports and inside there you should find the configuration file 
> used to build that kernel.
> Copy this to .config in /usr/src/linux and patch the tree with speakup and 
> then go:
> make oldconfig
> TAnd answer the speakup questions then make dep and make bzImage and send 
> her the kernel.
> Also when doing this its probably easier to use loadlin for the install so 
> that you don't have to play around with boot floppies.
> If the user does not need speakup then a dd image of what ever floppy 
> you'll need will work too.
> 
> Tommy
> 
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