On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 06:26:25AM +0200, Adam Podstawczynski wrote: > Hi, I have not followed your previous discussion, but can't you simply > > mv /lib/modules/your-kernel-name/kernel/drivers/ide/offending-module.ko > /any/backup/directory
Well that won't remove if from the initrd. You wold have to regenerate the initrd afterwards. The real problem appears to be that the SiS driver _does_ load, but exits with an error, after which the ide-generic driver loads and succeeds at running the ide controller. So the real problem is figuring out why the SiS driver dies on this system. > This will definitely prevent the offending module from loading at > startup. This is probably not a Debian way, nor any recommended way of > removing a module, but it will help you isolate the problem. Providing > that you have a startup disk or CD, or another working kernel (with a > different number) at hand so that you can move the module back into its > directory, if anything goes wrong. The error from dmesg is this one: SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later SIS_IDE: probe of 0000:00:02.5 failed with error -1 <-- What is that? Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: ST3120022A, ATA DISK drive So if anyone has seen that before or has suggestions (maybe bad BIOS setting) I am sure the owner of the system would love to hear about it. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]