Hi folks,
Attached you can find a small patch for hw-detect.sh to avoid some error messages about kernel modules that are not available for newer kernels.
Regards
Harri
--- debian-installer/packages/ddetect/hw-detect.sh 2004-07-26 21:58:18.272069317 +0200 +++ debian-installer.new/packages/ddetect/hw-detect.sh 2004-07-26 20:40:53.000000000 +0200 @@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ # Which discover version to use. Updated by discover_version() DISCOVER_VERSION=1 +KERNEL_VERSION=`uname -r` + log () { logger -t hw-detect "$@" } @@ -251,13 +253,27 @@ # XXX: This isn't the best way to do this; we should autodetect. # The order of these modules are important. get_manual_hw_info() { + case $KERNEL_VERSION in + 2.4.*) + KERNEL_IS_24=yup + KERNEL_MICROVERSION=`echo $KERNEL_VERSION | cut -d. -f3` + ;; + *) + ;; + esac get_floppy_info - # ide-mod and ide-probe-mod are needed for older (2.4.20) kernels - echo "ide-mod:Linux IDE driver" - echo "ide-probe-mod:Linux IDE probe driver" + if [ "$KERNEL_IS_24" -a $KERNEL_MICROVERSION -le 20 ]; then + # ide-mod and ide-probe-mod are needed for older (2.4.20) kernels + echo "ide-mod:Linux IDE driver" + echo "ide-probe-mod:Linux IDE probe driver" + fi get_ide_chipset_info - echo "ide-detect:Linux IDE detection" # 2.4.x > 20 - echo "ide-generic:Linux IDE support" # 2.6 + if [ "$KERNEL_IS_24" -a $KERNEL_MICROVERSION -gt 20 ]; then + echo "ide-detect:Linux IDE detection" # 2.4.x > 20 + fi + if [ ! "$KERNEL_IS_24" ]; then + echo "ide-generic:Linux IDE support" # 2.6 + fi get_ide_floppy_info echo "ide-disk:Linux ATA DISK" echo "ide-cd:Linux ATAPI CD-ROM"