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
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.
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
I thought an easy way to set a value to ide_generic_all would be to add
module_param(ide_generic_all, int, 0) to the end of ide/pci/generic.c as
ata/ata_generic.c does.
Looking around for some documentation on module_param (I can only keep
so many levels of macro expansion in my head) I found a ch
Hello,
I would like to know what it would take to enable generic ide support as
a fallback option using a stock Debian kernel-image.
I think that having the option available without recompiling a custom
kernel would be a great boon to all Debian users who are trying to use
Debian with a Linux ker
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