On Monday 17 December 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Now, let me ask the other question I've muttered about. I'm currently >> running 2.6.24-rc5 here, home built of course. >> >> In the kernel config, I don't see an option I can set that will switch it >> from using the ide drivers to using the libata stuff. This of course will >> mean I have to label everything in the system with tune2fs and edit my >> fstab and grub.conf as I go, but it seems to me that would solve my cross >> mounting problems a lot cleaner than futzing with everything else. So how >> do I enable these new libata operations in a locally built kernel? > >You can look at the confige files used by the Fedora kernels. They >are in /boot. I think the options may be to turn off IDE support, >and turn on CONFIG_SCSI_SAS_ATA, but this is just from a quick scan >of the config file, so I may have missed something. > >Mikkel I'll give that a try late tomorrow, got a gift exchange at my old workplace to attend tomorrow. Many thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Refreshed by a brief blackout, I got to my feet and went next door. -- Martin Amis, _Money_
