On 10/03/2009, Ken Teh <t...@anl.gov> wrote: > How does a system determine the appropriate sata driver? Specifically, how > does anaconda figure out to write > > alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix > > in my modprobe.conf and to bind it into my initrd image? > > I took apart boot.iso but didnt find anything "readable" that indicated how > this was determined.
Ken, I wonder if the "helper script", get-driver.sh, referenced on p61 of "Linux Kernel in a Nutshell" by Greg Kroah-Hartman and available to download from the publisher's web-site [1] will be any use to you? Regards, Alan. [1] http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596100797/examples.tar.gz