Re: Kernel Rebuild
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 10:09:34PM -0500, Jeremy wrote:
> I'm new to the idea of rebuilding my kernel for including or excluding things
> in my configuration, but I decided to brave it today and was (fairly)
> successful. I'm having a little bit of a problem, though. I need both the
> UMDA66 and the SMP features. I have the potato 2.2r2 installation CD set
> (the first 3, not the sources), and I'm currently using the UMDA66 kernel
> (2.2.18pre21) to access my extra hard drives that are on a Promise ATA/66
> card. I tried building a new kernel with SMP, but I found that in doing so,
> I can't seem to include the UMDA66 options that are in the original kernel.
> Before the new kernel, I had ide0, 1, 2, and 3, but now 2 and 3, which are on
> the card, aren't found.
>
> I know that I could probably just build an SMP module (or perhaps I'm wrong
> on that) to load in with the original kernel, but I really want to be able to
> delve into the world of kernel configuration and really make it my own at
> some point after I'm a bit more comfortable with it. Does anyone know what I
> need to do in order to include the UMDA66 features in on a custom kernel?
I believe you need to apply a patch in the 2.2.x series kernel for
UDMA-66 support. Did you get your kernel source from the "official"
site (kernel.org or some mirror) or from a Debian mirror with 'apt-get
kernel-source-2.2.18' or whatever? I'd be surprised if the Debian
sources didn't include this patch.
--
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
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