On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 10:38:23AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 14, maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and reboot with it, please tell which messages you still see afterwards. > > also be warned that current udev/initramfs-tools seems to forget about > > ide-generic if you need it add it before as a line in > > /etc/mkiniramfs/modules or modprobe it when dropped into the shell > > while booting.
> It does not "forget" it, it's not copied by design because I was told > that the ide-generic brokeness was removed from the Debian kernels. the faulty Xu patch was removed long ago, still lots of common intel/via hardware needs ide-generic. otherwise no ide driver is loaded for them. > No version of the udev initramfs scripts ever copied it, so it's not > clear how precedent versions could work if this is actually the problem. i'm investingating it atm. i don't get yet which change between 0.084-3 and 0.084-4 made the difference. i know that ide.generic was never included in initramfs. we use a quite similar code in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/init-premount/ide it needs to be converted to modprobe ide-generic only for ide boots, and to have timeouts for usb/scsi cases. similar to the ubuntu udev premount hook. > Some error messages are still printed, I need to think about a better > way to handle this since it's probably not a good idea to copy the whole > /lib/udev/ in the initramfs just to silence them. which error messages? > BTW, since you dropped these scripts on me it would be nice if you could > continue actively maintaining them, because I do not use an initramfs. it's quite easy to install linux-2.6-686 or whatever image you need in parallel to some cool git snapshots. :) i'm subscribed to udev pts and i try to keep track the best i can. what is your particular critic? -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]