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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:36:10 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
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       James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Subject: Re: Schedule for adding pata to kernel?
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Robert Hancock wrote:
> James Cloos wrote:
>> Incidently, on that front, what is the magic to make it work?
>>
>> I've not yet tried with 2.6.16 final, but I didn't have any luck with
>> earlier versions.
>>
>> I have a:
>>
>> ,----[lspci]
>> | 00:1f.1 0101: 8086:244a (rev 03)
>> | 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BAM IDE U100 (rev 03)
>> `----
>>
>> but never managed to determine the CONFIG that used ata_piix rather
>> than the old ide drivers.  Each attempt left me with a kernel which
>> could not mount its root....
> 
> What distribution? If you're building ata_piix and the other drivers 
> (scsi, sd, etc.) as modules you'll have to play with your initrd to get 
> it to load the correct modules on startup. If you build them into the 
> kernel, it should just work..

Normally you add the requisite drivers to /etc/modprobe.conf, and 
mkinitrd should select the correct modules from there.

	Jeff


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