I'm a blind moron...
May. 2nd, 2010 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsSo, for the past month I've been trying to get my ATI 3D drivers back online. Supposedly, this is possible with my T-60 laptop. It would be nice to play Plants Vs. Zombies-- hell, it would be nice to play just about anything-- in accelerated 3D.
The first step, though, involved loading a kernel that did not have the Linux stock Direct Rendering Manager installed And every time I tried to boot it up, it would give me the weirdest error: "Could not find a bootable drive."
I couldn't imagine what the video driver had to do with the IDE media drivers, but this is Linux, sometimes things are a little weird. After a while I gave up.
Last night I tried again. And this time I paid attention to the error message and looked at what the boot loader had in its instruction. Sure enough, every boot line pointed to the root partition of my system, except for the one I had for the ATI drivers. It pointed at my swap partition.
Well, that's not gonna work.
I'm not sure how that happened, either. Because I didn't type it in by hand; I basically cut and paste an earlier line and pointed the boot handler at the ATI-ready kernel. I shouldn't have touched the root partition specification at all.
Verra strange. Maybe my subconsious doesn't want me playing Plants Vs. Zombies or Halo.
The first step, though, involved loading a kernel that did not have the Linux stock Direct Rendering Manager installed And every time I tried to boot it up, it would give me the weirdest error: "Could not find a bootable drive."
I couldn't imagine what the video driver had to do with the IDE media drivers, but this is Linux, sometimes things are a little weird. After a while I gave up.
Last night I tried again. And this time I paid attention to the error message and looked at what the boot loader had in its instruction. Sure enough, every boot line pointed to the root partition of my system, except for the one I had for the ATI drivers. It pointed at my swap partition.
Well, that's not gonna work.
I'm not sure how that happened, either. Because I didn't type it in by hand; I basically cut and paste an earlier line and pointed the boot handler at the ATI-ready kernel. I shouldn't have touched the root partition specification at all.
Verra strange. Maybe my subconsious doesn't want me playing Plants Vs. Zombies or Halo.
