libata (was f8 boots!)

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Dec 18 02:40:35 UTC 2007


Gene Heskett wrote:
> Now, let me ask the other question I've muttered about.  I'm currently running 
> 2.6.24-rc5 here, home built of course.
> 
> In the kernel config, I don't see an option I can set that will switch it from 
> using the ide drivers to using the libata stuff.  This of course will mean I 
> have to label everything in the system with tune2fs and edit my fstab and 
> grub.conf as I go, but it seems to me that would solve my cross mounting 
> problems a lot cleaner than futzing with everything else.  So how do I enable 
> these new libata operations in a locally built kernel?
> 
You can look at the confige files used by the Fedora kernels. They
are in /boot. I think the options may be to turn off IDE support,
and turn on CONFIG_SCSI_SAS_ATA, but this is just from a quick scan
of the config file, so I may have missed something.

Mikkel
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