HD not detected update

[Kerry Hoath]

If it does't just do
cd /
mkdir proc
mount -tproc /proc

Regards, Kerry.
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:39:40AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 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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