On 8/26/05, Jan T. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:52:10PM -0500, Grant Thomas wrote: > > I have recently installed Etch onto my computer, an ST20G5 from > > shuttle. I am using a SATA HD, which is on a ULI SATA controller. > > I am able to install to the hard-drive after I load the module > > manually in the installer via modprobe. Everything installs fine, but > > I have a problem on boot: > > > > When the initrd image tries to pivot_root, kernel panic happens > > because it can't read the root fs correctly, and I think it is because > > the SATA module isnt loaded by the initrd. > > You could check this by running (after having booted successfully, > perhaps from another disk or a CD etc.) > > mount -t cramfs -o loop <your initrd image file> /mnt > > and then checking whether the modules in question are really absent. >
OK, I am at work now, but using the cramfs mount option, my initrd image does mount correctly. If I mount the initrd image, and make changes, then unmount it, will it still be a working image? Asuming that the sata module is not there, and I am able to add it to the correct directory, how would I manage to get it to load the module correctly? Would I just insert a line of sata_uli in the equivelant of /etc/modules? If so, which file would that be? > Best regards, Jan > > P.S.: For the sake of knowing it, I'd still like to know how / whether > it is possible to control the initrd assembly process of make-kpkg in > order to get certain modules included -- I'm still puzzled by the fact > that the modules were included in the initrd image in > linux-image-2.6.12-1-686.deb but not in the initrd image in the > package which I made from the Debian 2.6.12 kernel sources using > make-kpkg... Thanks for the help, hopefully this will be the last step to finally getting my machine going on my SATA drive.
