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Re: [daily 20041227][i386] freeze on SATA Promise PDC20621 [SATA150 SX4]



Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> retitle 287533
?

> I made some further tests and also had some email exchange with Promise
> support and I got finally a clue about the problem: sd_mod need to be
> loaded before sata_sx. This is a know problem even for the original
> driver (shipped only for redhat and suse.)

I. Hate. The. Kernel. :-(

> So the solution might be to include in /etc/modprobe.conf something
> like:
> install sata_sx "/sbin/modprobe sd_mod; /sbin/modprobe ‐‐ignore‐install
> sata_sx"

I don't think that will affect the order the modules are loaded by the 
installed system's initrd will it?

> Does anyonw know if this is possible using the modprobe command included
> in d-i (is it from busybox?)

It depends on the kernel version, 2.6 uses the module-init-tools one.

I think we can work around it easily in d-i by adding a hack to
load_module() in hw-detect. Fixing it in initrd-tools could be harder.

-- 
see shy jo

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