Re: 2.1.8 fails to boot

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@smurf.noris.de)
Tue, 12 Nov 1996 03:45:49 +0100

In linux.dev.kernel, article <Pine.LNX.3.95.961111184229.352A-100000@crl.crl.com>,
Jason Burrell <jburrell@crl.crl.com> writes:
>
> 2.1.8 fails to boot, giving a "hdb: no driver present" message.
> Presumably, this means it can't find the ext2fs driver. However, I went

No, it means it couldn't find the IDE disk driver.

> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
> # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set

Exactly.

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