Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752792Ab0GGFuV (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 01:50:21 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:41560 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750937Ab0GGFuT (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2010 01:50:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4C341598.6040004@kernel.org> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:50:16 +0200 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Knecht CC: Linux Kernel List , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Drives missing at boot References: <4C2F5ECB.1040505@kernel.org> <4C2F61AB.9030806@kernel.org> <4C317C04.20500@kernel.org> <4C32CE50.6010501@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1231 Lines: 41 Hello, On 07/06/2010 08:13 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > OK - thanks. The patch seemed to install correctly. I then did > > make clean > make && make modules_install > > and then a Gentoo command: > > modules-rebuild -X rebuild > > to pick up any package modules that need to be rebuild when I use a > new kernel. (X drivers, vmware, etc.) > > The kernel boots fine: > > mark@c2stable ~ $ uname -a > Linux c2stable 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 #4 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jul 6 10:35:15 PDT > 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU X 980 @ 3.33GHz GenuineIntel > GNU/Linux > mark@c2stable ~ $ > > I don't know what I'm looking for in the dmesg files but I do see one > message about a SATA Link being down. Umm... the patched module isn't being loaded. If patched, it should be reporting whether it's hard or soft resetting and some other debug messages. One common mistake is not updating initrd with patched modules. Is "modules-rebuild -X rebuild" the command for initrd update? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/