Re: Generic IDE support: initrd boot module parameters

2007-03-06 Thread Jacob L. Anawalt
Frans Pop wrote: Could you please try with the current version of the installer from [1]? With the latest kernel, the generic module should now accept the all_generic_ide parameter. You will need to boot the installer with: install generic.all_generic_ide=1 That worked great! Thank you. I

Re: Generic IDE support: initrd boot module parameters

2007-03-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 00:49, Jacob L. Anawalt wrote: > Thank you for pointing me in that direction. If it works that way, it's > reassuring. At this moment I am not sure how to build a d-i image with > a custom kernel and initrd to test it. Could you please try with the current version of

Re: Generic IDE support: initrd boot module parameters

2007-02-20 Thread Jacob L. Anawalt
Frans Pop wrote: > On Tuesday 20 February 2007 20:30, Jacob L. Anawalt wrote: >> There seems to be no facility >> in the initrd made by mkinitramfs to pass command line module >> parameters to modprobe. > > Yes, there is. See > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s02.html#module-parms

Re: Generic IDE support: initrd boot module parameters

2007-02-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 20:30, Jacob L. Anawalt wrote: > [PATCH] Allow ide_generic_all to be used modular and built in > > Allow ide/pci/generic to claim chipsets as a a module or > when built-in. It requires using "all_generic_ide" as a > boot option. >

Generic IDE support: initrd boot module parameters

2007-02-20 Thread Jacob L. Anawalt
I should have looked at the ide/pci/generic.c code in 2.6.19 instead of focusing on the new ata/ stuff and how it is implemented. This is old news but I just noticed it. 2.6.19 includes the same patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.19-rc1 commit a4bea10eca68152e