HD not detected update

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Interesting idea. Does the installation ramdisk system have a
/proc file system?

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> 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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> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
>

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