January 15, 2004
Sacrificing goats to the kernel gods
Good lord but is it a huge pain in the ass to get the 2.6 kernel up and running. I've naively wandered down this dark and threatening road before and have made the mistake yet again.
What sort of animal sacrifice must one make to get linux to recognize and boot from old hardware? I mean, is it a goat? Burnt or live? Must I sprinkle some sort of mojo dust around it first? Jump up in the air? Leap through flaming hoops while wearing a polka-dotted pair of pants? Sheesh, what a mess.
The sticking point now appears to be how grub handles finding the root partition. Through absolutely blind luck and repetitive hacks and restarts it appears using 'hdc=ide-scsi' on the kernel line is one place to start. Now it's a matter of doing the "what's in the kernel and what's modular" dance.
Now, back to the Hell that is kernel compiling...
