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From: Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with mkinitrd on AMD64, 2.6.7
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:05:20 +0200
To: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
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Hi folks,
I've got a problem with loadmodules on the initrd:
AFAICS mkinitrd searches /etc/fstab for the root and the
swap partition. Then it uses the /dev entry for swap (?) to
get a major device number. This number is then mapped to
hardware, i.e. "SCSI" for my SATA controller. Finally it
searches /proc/scsi to get the device name to add it to
loadmodules.
The problem is that sometimes /proc/scsi does not contain the
module name for my swap device. 'sata_sil' does not appear in
/proc/scsi. I don't know why its not there, but this is not
important. Without sata_sil in loadmodules my PC won't boot.
Wouldn't it be easier and more reliable for mkinitrd to use
/proc/modules to get a list of modules to load, e.g. something
like
for m in $(cat /proc/modules | cut -d\ -f1); do
if test "$(find /lib/modules/$(uname
-r)/kernel/drivers/scsi/$m.$o)"; then
echo $m >>loadmodules
fi
done
This is not verified to work, but I'm sure you get the
meaning.
Regards
Harri
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