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On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 08:11:45AM -0600, Randy Arabie wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Jan Ries wrote:
>
> > perhaps a look in /var/log/messages
> > gives you some more timr to read ;-)
>
> I'm running metalog...there is no /var/log/messages. I've grep'ed through
> the /var/log directory tree and have not found anything usefull.
>
> Too bad old 'dmesg' info isn't retained. All I have is the 'dmesg' output
> from the most recent boot, which is a working kernel. I guess it would be
> hard for that to get recorded (i.e. written to disk), considering the OS
> doesn't come up 'cause it can't mount the filesystem on the hd ;-(
did you include a driver for your chipset when you compiled the kernel?
eg generic, sis, via ...
>
> > > I noticed this line as the kernel attempted to mount my /dev/hda3
> > > partition.
> >
> > >
> > > hda: no driver
> > >
> > > Would that be an ide hd driver or an XFS driver?
> >
> > An ide driver, hda is the drive. The partitions would be called hda1,hda2 ...
> > good luck
> >
> > jan
>
> Thanks Jan. I'll go back and examine my ide config options.
> --
> Cheerio!
>
> Randy
>
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