The new driver-thingie is libata. But I never got it working, even though it claimed to load Ok. I had to use the old driver to use Sata. Ran out of time and interest to pursue it further. cheers Rod
On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 22:39 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Mary Gardiner wrote: > >The initrd on a superficial check looked OK (ie, it's a mountable > >filesystem, it has /dev). I can't answer the question about whether it > >has the correct driver for my filesystem because Google and my offlist > >correspondent both indicate that the drivers for SATA controllers all > >changed names between 2.6.7 and 2.6.8 and hence I have very little idea > >of what the correct driver actually calls itself. (This is in addition > >to suddenly all becoming treated as SCSI devices.) > > Ah :( > > >If the install process really is building only current modules into the > >initrd, then that may explain the problem. If so though, I'm absolutely > >stuck for solving it, short of building an initrd by hand. At the moment > >I'm reasonably sure that it is *not* loading the correct driver, because > >the boot sequence goes: > > OK, in that case your best bet is to fix the initrd by hand, which may be as > easy as unzipping the image, mounting it, copying in the missing modules, > and editing linuxrc, and as hard as mounting the image, copying everything > somewhere else because the cramfs isn't writable, adding the modules, > working out how the module loading works because linuxrc is a binary > executable, and repacking the lot into a new cramfs. > > Hopefully it's closer to the former than the latter. My only advice is keep > all your initrds in /boot until you have one that works, otherwise it'll > really start to suck. > > I found grub was excellent for mucking around with bootloaders in this way, > because I could just change the initrd at boot time without being worried > about breaking the bootloader too. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
