Phillip: please, so not top-post Jano: please, do not remove Cc people, when replying (i.e. reply to all) Phillip Susi wrote: > Ubuntu uses an initramfs, so unless he has rebuilt his kernel to get > around that, he should still be using one. He has his own kernel with explicitly initrd disabled by config option (i.e. not even supported by the kernel): http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/09/11 > OP, please check dmesg for any new errors after you attempt to mount > something on hdb. Also what is the output of a mount command with no > options? There is a proc/mounts here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/08/322 > Jiri Slaby wrote: >> Aah, sorry for the question, you use 2.6.18.1 and there is no such >> option yet. >> >> Despite you have ide-generic built-in and other drivers have as a >> module and you don't use initrd. If I was you, I'll try to disable >> ide-generic and choose your ide chipset as built-in in >> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support under Device drivers. regards, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html