Re: 2.6.6 on Blue&White G3

2004-05-23 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Why not use discover in the initrd ? This has gotten hold of you and won't let you go, eh? > Would this be too place consuming ? Yes. Also, discover is meant to detect all the hardware no matter where you run it. If you want this, you should build as many drivers a

Re: 2.6.6 on Blue&White G3

2004-05-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 04:13:49PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Why do the drives get numbered in a different order? > > > > In 2.4, the drivers for both your controllers were built into the > > kernel. They probably got probed in alphabetical order, which > > Nope, they get probed in the

Re: 2.6.6 on Blue&White G3

2004-05-23 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Why do the drives get numbered in a different order? > > In 2.4, the drivers for both your controllers were built into the > kernel. They probably got probed in alphabetical order, which Nope, they get probed in the precise order that is defined in the IDE driver (there's a lengthy struct pop

Re: 2.6.6 on Blue&White G3

2004-05-20 Thread Derrik Pates
Jens Schmalzing wrote: Beats me. The mkinitrd script contains fairly involved detection heuristics for the root filesystem drivers. They use the /proc filesystem repeatedly, so the problem may be due to your first initrd being built with a 2.4 kernel running and the order of the controllers rev

Re: 2.6.6 on Blue&White G3

2004-05-20 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Tim Otten writes: > Why doesn't it find the CMD646 automatically? Beats me. The mkinitrd script contains fairly involved detection heuristics for the root filesystem drivers. They use the /proc filesystem repeatedly, so the problem may be due to your first initrd being built with a 2.4 ker

2.6.6 on Blue&White G3

2004-05-20 Thread Tim Otten
I'm trying to boot kernel-image-2.6.6-powerpc, version 2.6.6-2, on a Blue&White G3. It crashes during the initrd, with pivot_root complaining, "No such file or directory," and subsequent complaints about failing to open /dev/console and a failure of init. Looking at the hardware detection, I got: