On Tuesday 07 March 2006 18:43, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > I have startet a wiki page to document the ide-generic problem with the > Linux kernel (and thus the ramdisk tools as well). The page is here: > http://wiki.debian.org/LinuxKernelIdeProblem
I am not completely sure that ide-generic really is needed. I now know it is not for my Toshiba Satellite A40 laptop (piix). From: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352753;msg=69 [1] ! I guess this shows why ide.agent is needed (to load ide-disk, ide-cd, ! ...) , although my case does _not_ show why that script should need to ! include ide-generic. Guess we need other people testing to show the need ! for this. At first it _seemed_ ide-generic was needed, but more careful testing showed it actually is not. I have just confirmed this by renaming the ide-generic driver and regenerating the initrd: the system booted just fine. So, it may be a good idea to ask people who've reported issues in the past to do specific tests using current kernel, udev and initrd generators to check if ide-generic really is needed. [1] This BR is already linked from the wiki; maybe for the wrong reasons (though I think it is relevant)
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