Re: APM support in kernel?
* Morgan Hall <morganh@aracnet.com> [001014 12:51]:
> Sure, I know that I can modularize it, but I really like to know that
> I've customized it to fit my machine. Picky, maybe, but isn't that
> why we go through this rather than pay someone else to do it? I do
> anyway.
>
> I've double checked the configuration, then gone back and read the
> '.config' file just to make sure it really wrote what I wanted.
>
> Looks like here's a clue (from /usr/src/linux/.config)
> ...
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
> # Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK is not set
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set
> ...
>
> This looks suspicious! Guess I'll hand-edit and see what I get.
You will need
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
to build IDE disk support into your kernel. This need to NOT be a module
if your boot device is an IDE disk (see the help when you do 'make
menuconfig' or 'make xconfig').
--
David
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