From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: vb Subject: Re: Mounting CF flash card in 2.6.25 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 11:13:11 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20080603171923.7aaf87b5@core> <48458099.5020306@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.28]:38258 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752967AbYFCSNN (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:13:13 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so864170ywe.1 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:13:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48458099.5020306@msgid.tls.msk.ru> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Tokarev , Alan Cox Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote: > vb wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >>> >>> You need to ensure you have SCSI_DISK support included (as CF is a disk) >>> and you need your initrd either to create device nodes, or to prepack >>> them. >> >> I don't see SCSI_DISK as a config option, can you please elaborate on >> this? > > It's CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD. > Alan, Michael, this was it - now the /dev/sda and friends get created, the CF gets mounted and the system comes up all the way to the login prompt! Thank you so much for your help, (and for my faith in free software being restored :-)) What do you think: shouldn't enabling of PATA_OF_PLATFORM enable BLK_DEV_SD automatically? This would have saved me (and maybe a few more newbies who try doing this) a few days of banging my head against the desk. regards, Vadim