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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:45:48 +0100
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
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To: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with mounting filesystems from /dev/hdb (kernel 2.6.18.1)
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Phillip: please, so not top-post
Jano: please, do not remove Cc people, when replying (i.e. reply to all)

Phillip Susi wrote:
> Ubuntu uses an initramfs, so unless he has rebuilt his kernel to get
> around that, he should still be using one.

He has his own kernel with explicitly initrd disabled by config option (i.e. not
even supported by the kernel):
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/09/11

> OP, please check dmesg for any new errors after you attempt to mount
> something on hdb.  Also what is the output of a mount command with no
> options?

There is a proc/mounts here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/08/322

> Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> Aah, sorry for the question, you use 2.6.18.1 and there is no such
>> option yet.
>>
>> Despite you have ide-generic built-in and other drivers have as a
>> module and you don't use initrd. If I was you, I'll try to disable
>> ide-generic and choose your ide chipset as built-in in
>> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support under Device drivers.

regards,
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http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/            Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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