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Re: pivot_root: No such file or directory



Thank-you so much, I got it working now!  I would have never figured
this out myself.

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 07:03:06 +0100, Harald Dunkel
<harald.dunkel@t-online.de> wrote:
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> Count László de Almásy wrote:
> | "Harald Dunkel" <harald.dunkel@t-online.de> writes:
> |
> |>Workaround is to add your sata driver to /etc/mkinitrd/modules
> |>and rebuild the initrd.
> |
> |
> | I've now run into this problem when I tried to build by own 2.6.9
> | kernel via kernel-package.
> |
> | How can I figure out which sata drivers I need to add to /etc/mkinitrd/modules?
> |
> 
> You should check the output of lspci and lspci -n for
> your sata controller. lspci | grep -i sata returns for
> my PC:
> 
> 0000:01:07.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller (rev 01)
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> lspci -n | grep 0000:01:07.0 says
> 
> 0000:01:07.0 0104: 1095:3512 (rev 01)
> ~                   ^^^^ ^^^^
> Next step is to search for 1095 and 3512 in
> /lib/modules/2.6.9/modules.pcimap:
> 
> % grep 1095 /lib/modules/2.6.9/modules.pcimap | grep 3512
> sata_sil             0x00001095 0x00003512 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x0
> ^^^^^^^^                   ^^^^       ^^^^
> In this example "sata_sil" is the module name to add
> to /etc/mkinitrd/modules. Since modules.pcimap is
> generated using information compiled into the kernel
> modules, only the modules you have built are listed.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Harri
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