On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 10:08 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > [...] > When FAI does not activate DMA support for an IDE disk, that means the > generic IDE driver is loaded before the special IDE driver for you > chipset. Try to force to load the IDE driver for your chipset (in > 20-hwdetect.source) before discover-modprobe is trying to load a > generic driver. If you are doing an installation with fai-cd this it > more complicated, as you have to patch mkinitrd-cd.
cool. added modprobe ata_piix at the very start of 20-hwdetect.source, built a custom FAI kernel with the necessary modules (there where still some needed, the kernel is compatible with the other machines) and it worked fine. Henning
