you could pull down the systeminager source, modify the busybox.rul file
to pull down bb 1.0 from the bb site, recompile and see if that works.

-C 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Burk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, December 24, 2004 12:34 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Sisuite-users] Sata support - can't get it 
> working - SI-3.2.3
> 
> so I'm SOL?
> 
> John Burk
> 
> Sr. Technical Director
> Mainframe Entertainment
> 
> 604.628.1019
> 
> 
> 
> 
> David N. Lombard wrote:
> 
> > John Burk wrote:
> >
> >> I know there are a lot of posts on this list about getting this 
> >> working, and I've read through them, and I'm still unable to get a 
> >> working config where I can install an image on our Dell Precision 
> >> 470's with SATA drives.  Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
> >>
> >> I downloaded Peter Meuller's si320sata.iso, but it would 
> appear that 
> >> it doesn't have support for the e1000 network card, just the Intel 
> >> Pro/1000, which makes sense seeing as how that's what's in 
> the Dell 
> >> PowerEdge 700 series.  DHCPDISCOVERS wind up only going 
> out on only 
> >> the loopback interface...
> >>
> >> So I d/loaded the SI-3.2.3 source, and also JGarzik's libata patch 
> >> (2.4.25-libata16.patch.gz), and did the following:
> >>
> >
> > IIRC, Garzik's libata patch uses EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL but the 0.6.x 
> > busybox in SIS 3.2.3 doesn't support that.  So, the module 
> is failing 
> > to load with an undefined symbol.
> >
> > [deletia]
> >
> >> I get an error msg when it tries to parition the drive:
> >>
> >>    Partitioning /dev/sda
> >>    Error: unable to stat /dev/sda - no such file or directory
> >>
> >> ls'ing /dev shows that indeed there are no /dev/sda* 
> devices present.
> >
> >
> > When the initrd drops into the shell, and lsmod should show the 
> > modules not loaded.  Attempting to load them will fail as described 
> > above.
> >
> 
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