Hi,
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, David Flood wrote:
I did a search of the known bugs and also the mailing list archives but
couldn't find any mention of this so here goes.
I have a couple of middle aged laptops (300-500 MHZ class) that use
drive overlays due to large hard drives and dual booting with Windows.
When I installed Suse Pro 9.1, I had to use the command hda=remap during
installation and in the grub config file. That works just fine. 9.2
had the same command but didn't support my touchpad properly and I never
tried 9.3.
So, I figure I have several options at this point.
1) find a kernel rpm that has ide-core compiled in rather than a module
(are there more kernel packages on the DVD? I haven't looked at the DVD
yet)
2) Boot to RECOVERY and hack the initrd and figure out how to specify
"options hda=remap" when it insmods ide-core and hope I remember how I
did it so that when a new kernel is released I can do it all over again.
(does mkinitrd read modules.conf? If so, I might be able to put that
command in there and see if it gets picked up by mkinitrd)
3) Build my own kernel 2.4.x RPM under 9.1 and call it kernel-ide or
something like that so that it never gets replaced during the upgrade
4) Open a bug, stick with 9.1 for now and hope that 10.x fixes this
Anyone got any ideas, especially where I can find #1? Does the
multi-processor kernel have ide-core compiled in? I didn't try that
one.
/etc/modprobe.conf.local is the right place for special module options,
also for those which make it into initrd.
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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