Re: FATAL: Module ata_piix not found failed to create initrd image

[Jens Schmalzing <j.s@lmu.de>]

Hi,

BONGO Abdoulkadri writes:

> many of us found this error when trying to build a kernel 2.6.x with
> initrd.  here is what i do :

> 1-install sarge beta-3
> 2-apt-get install kernel-package
> 3-apt-get install bin86
> 4-apt-get install libncurses-dev
> 5-apt-get install module-init-tools
> 6-apt-get install bzip2
> 7-make-kpkg --initrd --config=menuconfig --revision=name kernel_image
> 8-dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.4_name1.0_i386.deb

The point of all this being what?  I would recommend you use one of
the pre-packaged kernel images, you gain nothing if you rebuild
(assuming you use the kernel-source package from Debian).

If you insist on building your kernel yourself, either

o create your own initrd using other tools (you want to create your
  own kernel, why not create your own mkinitrd?), or

o leave out the initrd entirely (building all drivers for the root
  filesystem into the kernel itself), or

o build ata_piix as a module (CONFIG_SCSI_ATA_PIIX=m), or

o upgrade initrd-tools (0.1.64 should do).

Regards, Jens.

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