Re: 2.4.22 & IDE modules
On 3 Nov 2003 at 10:57, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> Forgive me if this has been documented somewhere and I missed it. I
> recently installed my first debian desktop box. I used a bf2.4 net
> install cd linked to on debian.org, finished the base install, canceled
> tasksel, and did a dist-upgrade to unstable. I also took the opportunity
> to get the latest 2.4 SMP kernel, which was 2.4.22-1-686-smp. After
do you use more than one CPU? If not, don't use the SMP-kernel.
> booting, I could not access any IDE drives and my sound card didn't
> work. With some help from #debian, it was determined that it was a
Which ide-controller do you use? An output of "lspci -vvv" would be
helpful.
> problem with modules. So I installed the 2.4.22 source package, used the
> 2.4.22-1-686-smp .config, changed CONFIG_IDE to y, built and rebooted.
> My sound card works with no fuss, which confuses me since CONFIG_IDE is
> the only change I made. But I still have to load ide-detect manually to
> access my IDE drives. I never did get it to work with the
add "ide-detect" in /etc/modules and run an "update-modules"
afterwards (you can also do a modconf and add the required modules)
> 2.4.22-1-686-smp package, will try again tonight now that I know which
> module to load.
>
> What is the correct way to configure this to load at boot? I have initrd
> images (for both the official package and the one I built with
> kernel-package) I made by hand for each kernel. I noticed in some older
> threads on this list people talking about files in /initrd determining
> what initrd loads, or do they determine what modules go into an initrd
> image? Either way, I have no files in /initrd. Am I missing a package?
> I'd much prefer to stick with the provided binary kernel packages.
>
> Is there an up to date document I could look at (everything I've seen is
> about stable and/or is 2-3 years old) about the module config files
> layout? Like, what are the differences in /etc/modu* and /etc/modp*?
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Mit freundlichen Gruessen/Best regards,
Sebastian Piecha
EMail: spi@gmxpro.de
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