Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754106Ab2EDJcN (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2012 05:32:13 -0400 Received: from mms3.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.19]:2910 "EHLO MMS3.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753676Ab2EDJcM (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 May 2012 05:32:12 -0400 X-Server-Uuid: B730DE51-FC43-4C83-941F-F1F78A914BDD Message-ID: <4FA39F5C.1070501@broadcom.com> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 11:20:28 +0200 From: "Arend van Spriel" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120411 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chris Jones" cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: Re: Hard drive detection References: <20120504185604.3addfd2e@ubuntu> In-Reply-To: <20120504185604.3addfd2e@ubuntu> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 X-WSS-ID: 63BD7DAB3E027353667-01-01 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 767 Lines: 19 On 05/04/2012 10:56 AM, Chris Jones wrote: > What section of the kernel detects internal hard drives upon boot? A bit of a weird question, but maybe I do not understand where it is coming from. Some context might help. The hard drives are likely connected to a harddisk controller of some sort and that controller is somehow hooked up in your system. Your kernel needs a driver for the controller. It is 'convenient' to have that driver built in your kernel for the hard drive containing the root file system. Gr. AvS -- 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/