Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:31:11 -0500 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 |
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On Monday 28 January 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: >> 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. >> >> 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? > >I am not sure I understand a question (it is not my native language) but > here I simply do > >mkinitrd --omit-ide-modules --preload pata_ali --preload sd_mod ... > >or > >mkinitrd --omit-scsi-modules --preload alim15x3 --preload ide-disk ... > This looks doable, thanks. I was trying to be cute above when I'm rather frustrated by all this. I might have to fiddle a bit but I got the idea.
OTOH, I and about 15,000 others according to google, would be everlastingly gratefull if it was just fixed. :)
Thanks
>If you ask how --omit part is implemented I happily send you mkinitrd > script.
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