Bug#343048: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686: modules ide-generic and ide-disk not loading

[Ricardo Ferreira <ricardo@isr.ist.utl.pt>]

On Monday 12 December 2005 11:53, Maximilian Attems wrote:
> the debian kernel package has an patch that prevents udev from properly
> loading ide-generic.
> that patch is on the way to be removed.
>
> the ide-disk case needs to be looked into.
> anyway as short time workaround add
> -- /etc/mkinitramfs/modules
> ide-generic
> ide-disk
> --
>
> and dpkg-reconfigure your linux-image.
>
> regards
>
> --
> maks

Yup, that works, at least with initramfs-tools, will try going back to yaird 
later. Any comments on using one instead of the other?

Just to answer Sumit's question: if you install initramfs-tools (instead of 
yaird) and recreate the initial ram disk (with a "dpkg-reconfigure 
linux-image-2.6.14-2-686" for example) you'll have a busybox executable in 
the image (which includes modprobe). Much more usefull than what yaird 
provides. I'm not up to speed on the differences between the two initrd 
tools, this is just what I got out-of-the-box with apt-get install. 

Thanks for the quick response. 
Ricardo