Re: SuperMicro Super 7 X7SBi
On Thursday 03 Apr 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Which controller is the DVD connected to?
The DVD drive is connected to the onboard IDE controller as secondary slave.
I thought all optical drives were the same, driver-wise?
> Maybe your controller isn't supported by 2.6.18 in etch. The 3ware
> obviously is and USB as well.
So how does it ever manage to boot up the installation disk at all in the
first place, then?
> Don't bother with kernel.org, grab the linux-image from unstable
> instead since it has 2.6.24. Much less messy. After all if there is a
> package for it use it. Only when there isn't should you bother with the
> source. It keeps the system neat and tidy.
I got the kernel to compile and boot (after much wailing and gnashing of
teeth; first time around I forgot the initial ramdisk image, so I got errors
about unknown block devices. In the 2.2 and 2.4 days, I always put stuff
that was needed for booting straight into the kernel, not as a module. And
somehow my lilo.conf was not updated correctly when I installed the new
linux-image with initrtd.)
Still no joy with the DVD drive.
I think I'm going to get back to the supplier, and ask them what driver they
used when they tested it before it left the workshop.
--
AJS
delta echo bravo six four at earthshod dot co dot uk
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