Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:09:05 -0500 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24 |
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On Monday 28 January 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >Richard Heck wrote: >> Daniel Barkalow wrote: >>> Can you switch back to old IDE to get your work done (and to make sure >>> it's not a hardware issue that's developed recently)? >> >> I think it'd be really, REALLY helpful to a lot of people if you, or >> someone, could explain in moderate detail how this might be done. I >> tried doing it myself, but I'm not sufficiently expert at configuring >> kernels that I was ever able to figure out how to do it. > >well, here on Mandriva I > >1) compile both IDE and libata as modules >2) create initrd that contains either IDE or libata modules >3) use labels for file system mounts, swaps and resume device. > > >Now 1) should be pretty straightforward (I could send you config if you >like, it is stripped down to bare minimum on my system, you will have to >check drivers for your hardware). 2 and 3 are obviously distribution >dependent. I can explain how to do it on Mandriva that ATM has near to >perfect support for addressing devices via label/UUID; also ide/scsi/ata >switch is trivial using Mandriva mkinitrd. > >-andrey > >> Obviously, the short version is: switch back to Fedora 6. But this kind >> of problem with libata---and yes, you're almost surely right that it's >> not one problem but lots---is sufficiently widespread that a Mini HOWTO, >> say, would be really welcome and, I'm guessing, widely used. >> >> Richard
I already build as modules, and it would be relatively easy to make 2 boot stanza's that used the different initrd's if there were examples that could be used as 'excludes' when building the initrd's. Is such a creature breedable?
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