On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. > > > > 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? >
I am not sure I understand a question (it is not my native language) but here I simply do mkinitrd --omit-ide-modules --preload pata_ali --preload sd_mod ... or mkinitrd --omit-scsi-modules --preload alim15x3 --preload ide-disk ... If you ask how --omit part is implemented I happily send you mkinitrd script.
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