libata (was f8 boots!)

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 17 December 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>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

I'll give that a try late tomorrow, got a gift exchange at my old workplace to 
attend tomorrow.  Many thanks.

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