Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:09:05 -0500
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24
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To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: Richard Heck <rgheck@bobjweil.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Monday 28 January 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>Richard Heck wrote:
>> Daniel Barkalow wrote:
>>> Can you switch back to old IDE to get your work done (and to make sure
>>> it's not a hardware issue that's developed recently)?
>>
>> I think it'd be really, REALLY helpful to a lot of people if you, or
>> someone, could explain in moderate detail how this might be done. I
>> tried doing it myself, but I'm not sufficiently expert at configuring
>> kernels that I was ever able to figure out how to do it.
>
>well, here on Mandriva I
>
>1) compile both IDE and libata as modules
>2) create initrd that contains either IDE or libata modules
>3) use labels for file system mounts, swaps and resume device.
>
>
>Now 1) should be pretty straightforward (I could send you config if you
>like, it is stripped down to bare minimum on my system, you will have to
>check drivers for your hardware). 2 and 3 are obviously distribution
>dependent. I can explain how to do it on Mandriva that ATM has near to
>perfect support for addressing devices via label/UUID; also ide/scsi/ata
>switch is trivial using Mandriva mkinitrd.
>
>-andrey
>
>> Obviously, the short version is: switch back to Fedora 6. But this kind
>> of problem with libata---and yes, you're almost surely right that it's
>> not one problem but lots---is sufficiently widespread that a Mini HOWTO,
>> say, would be really welcome and, I'm guessing, widely used.
>>
>> Richard

I already build as modules, and it would be relatively easy to make 2 boot 
stanza's that used the different initrd's if there were examples that could 
be used as 'excludes' when building the initrd's.  Is such a creature 
breedable?

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