From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Subject: Re: Schedule for adding pata to kernel?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:36:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <442A9B5A.5020703@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <442A9A1C.1020004@shaw.ca>
Robert Hancock wrote:
> James Cloos wrote:
>> Incidently, on that front, what is the magic to make it work?
>>
>> I've not yet tried with 2.6.16 final, but I didn't have any luck with
>> earlier versions.
>>
>> I have a:
>>
>> ,----[lspci]
>> | 00:1f.1 0101: 8086:244a (rev 03)
>> | 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BAM IDE U100 (rev 03)
>> `----
>>
>> but never managed to determine the CONFIG that used ata_piix rather
>> than the old ide drivers. Each attempt left me with a kernel which
>> could not mount its root....
>
> What distribution? If you're building ata_piix and the other drivers
> (scsi, sd, etc.) as modules you'll have to play with your initrd to get
> it to load the correct modules on startup. If you build them into the
> kernel, it should just work..
Normally you add the requisite drivers to /etc/modprobe.conf, and
mkinitrd should select the correct modules from there.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-29 14:36 UTC|newest]
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2006-03-29 14:30 ` Schedule for adding pata to kernel? Robert Hancock
2006-03-29 14:36 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-03-29 22:30 ` James Cloos
2006-03-29 23:34 ` Robert Hancock
2006-03-31 5:37 ` James Cloos
2006-03-30 11:20 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-20 15:38 Libata PATA for 2.6.16 Alan Cox
2006-03-23 19:03 ` Chris Boot
2006-03-26 9:53 ` Schedule for adding pata to kernel? Harald Dunkel
2006-03-26 17:26 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-27 6:15 ` James Cloos
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2006-04-18 12:00 ` Alan Cox
2006-04-18 12:13 ` Tejun Heo
2006-04-20 22:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-04-21 1:12 ` Tejun Heo
2006-04-21 6:38 ` Albert Lee
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