Bug#271164: Installation Report amd64(gcc-3.2)

["Harald Dunkel" <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> Harald Dunkel wrote:
>
> > This is not about initrd. The IDE drivers are not loaded from the
> > initrd in this case, because my root disk is managed by sata_sil.
> > Sorry, probably my report wasn't precise about this.
>
>
> Surely the initrd must load the appropriate ide drivers for your system
> to boot?

I have a sata harddisk (managed by the sata_sil driver, i.e.
a scsi driver) and an ide cdrom drive (amd74xx), thats all.

The boot script on initrd does _not_ load any ide driver in
this case, but just sata_sil, because thats the only driver
necessary to mount the root disk and do pivot_root(). There
is no problem with initrd, AFAICT.

> > I am not sure about all the other drivers. Fact is: d-i writes
> > "ide-generic" into /etc/modules. If I don't manually remove it, then
> > DMA is turned off for my IDE CDROM. And I can't switch it on using
> > hdparm. Both IDE drivers (ide-generic and amd74xx) are loaded.
> >
> > This is the generated /etc/modules for my PC (without the
> > comment lines):
> >
> > 	ide-cd
> > 	ide-generic
> > 	sbp2
> > 	sd_mod
> > 	sr_mod
>
>
> The ide-cd and ide-generic are written there to support systems that
> have a scsi hard disk and ide cdrom, 

Thats exactly my case.

> as otherwise there is likely nothing
> that will load ide support to let the cd drive work. 

Discover loads the correct ide driver! But at that time my cdrom
drive is already managed by ide-generic, because this driver was
loaded first. It was just loaded first because d-i wrote it into
/etc/modules.


Regards

Harri