Getting the initrd dsdt table running

Getting the initrd dsdt table running

[Brian Peyton]

I've got a Dell Inspirion 5100.

I'm trying to get 2.6.0-test9 working with the initrd dsdt table patch.  I
normally don't use an initrd, and on his page it says that if I don't use an
initrd I can just set the initrd to the binary lookingish .aml file that
iasl produces.  So in my grub.conf file I have the line:
Initrd /boot/initrd

Where the contents of initrd is the .aml file.  From dmesg it still says not
detected.  How can I fix this?



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Re: Getting the initrd dsdt table running

[Sebastian Henschel]

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hi...

* Brian Peyton <bpeyton-DUV0O6k01bo@public.gmane.org> [2003-11-15 09:42 +0100]:
> I've got a Dell Inspirion 5100.
> 
> I'm trying to get 2.6.0-test9 working with the initrd dsdt table patch.  I
> normally don't use an initrd, and on his page it says that if I don't use an
> initrd I can just set the initrd to the binary lookingish .aml file that
> iasl produces.  So in my grub.conf file I have the line:
> Initrd /boot/initrd
> 
> Where the contents of initrd is the .aml file.  From dmesg it still says not
> detected.  How can I fix this?

the contents of the initrd is not the AML only, it also contains a magic
signature:

echo "INITRDDSDT123DSDT123" >> /boot/initrd # magic signature
cat DSDT.aml >> /boot/initrd


otherwise, you are sure that the patch is included in the kernel? what
is the exact output (dmesg)?

cheers,
 sebastian

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