[Sussex] Strange grub behaviour

[John D.]

Steve Williams wrote:

>
>I've not used genkernel so I don't know whether it auto-detects ide
>chipsets. I've been rolling my own kernels since RedHat 3.whatever.
>There has been the odd occasion when building my own that I've not
>commpiled the necessary chipset support into the kernel, which causes
>grub to throw a wobbly early in the boot process. One of the other
>gotchas has been a lack of MS-DOS partition support - ensure this is
>compiled in.
>
>If you compile all the necessary chipset, partition and filesystem
>support into the kernel you won't need an initrd.
>
I was reading that somewhere else. Though I don't follow how to ID my
chipset! Plus, you think that I need MS-DOS support even though I don't
have any windows install now ???

>OK next Monday is fine by me.
>
Splendid, it's probably best to send me some directions off-list, even
though it should only take me 10 mins or so to get there!

regards

John D.