Hi,
I have a Debian Latitude D610 with Debian 'unstable'. By using the
known recipe of loading the initrd modules in the order: ide-generic,
ata_piix, sd_mod, I have had no problem with its SATA hard drive
(Hitachi HTS54108) and DVD-RW (_NEC DVD+/-RW ND-6500A) until kernel
2.6.12.
However, that hack doesn't work anymore with 2.6.14 nor 2.6.15: I
noticed that they were using yaird and found the right place to
configure the module loading's order (see below). The problem now is
that the IDE probe (upon loading of ide-generic) recognizes my harddrive
and assigns /dev/hda to it! The boot messages are something like:
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: Hitachi HTS54108
hdc: _NEC DVD+/-RW ND-6500A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<Blah Blah>
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory
Waiting 1 seconds for /ses/block/sda/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory
Waiting 2 seconds for /ses/block/sda/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory
Waiting 4 seconds for /ses/block/sda/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory
Waiting 8 seconds for /ses/block/sda/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory
Waiting 16 seconds for /ses/block/sda/dev to show up
/bin/cat: /sys/block/sda/dev: No such file or directory
Device /sys/block/sda/dev seems to be down.
/bin/dash: can't access tty; job control turned off
I tried changing root=/dev/sda to root=/dev/hda in grub, but that
doesn't work either. I'd really appreciate any help, and I'll be glad to
supply more info and try recomendations!
Thank you very much...
Pato
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YAIRD CONFIGURATION MODIFICATION
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--- /etc/yaird/Default.cfg 2006-01-21 17:57:30.000000000 -0500
+++ /etc/yaird/Default.cfg~ 2005-12-08 22:19:15.000000000 -0500
@@ -103,10 +103,6 @@
MODULE mousedev
MODULE evdev
- MODULE ide-generic
- MODULE ata_piix
- MODULE sd_mod
-
#
# NETWORK -- Insert modules for all ethernet devices
# connected to the system, eg for NFS boot. Note that
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