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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!zaphod.crihan.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ipgaix!peppe From: peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it (G. Vitillaro) Subject: Kernel needed Message-ID: <1993May29.084538.111115@ipgaix.unipg.it> Organization: Universita' di Perugia Date: Sat, 29 May 1993 08:45:38 GMT Lines: 26 I think I need a particular Kernel for my (crazy) HD controller. The controller (a WD hardware emulation on SCSI: I'm sure of that, no BIOS emulation), doesn't answer to the IDENTIFY CMD request (I checked it with ide_conf), so the standard kernel (as contained in dist.fs) it is not able to find the disk label. I think that what I need is a Kernel with hardcoded parameters for wd0 (730 Cyl, 16 Heads, 55 Sectors). I mean, should be enough to change the wd driver where the it gets the wd0 (drive 0) parameters, hardcode my values and recompile the kernel (may I suppose that standard kernel do the trick the same way of ide_conf?). Using Julian boot blocks (I managed to obtain them), I'm able to boot the kernel from the hard disk. If I can have a kernel that know my disk parameters, things have to work. Any body may do that for me? Thank in advance, Peppe -- Giuseppe Vitillaro - IBM SEMEA | E-Mail : peppe@ipgaix.unipg.it University of Perugia Italy | 06100 Perugia Phone:+39.75.585-2200 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- All comments/opinions are mine and don't represent those of IBM