Re: Schedule for adding pata to kernel?

[Robert Hancock]

James Cloos wrote:
> Incidently, on that front, what is the magic to make it work?
>
> I've not yet tried with 2.6.16 final, but I didn't have any luck with
> earlier versions.
>
> I have a:
>
> ,----[lspci]
> | 00:1f.1 0101: 8086:244a (rev 03)
> | 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BAM IDE U100 (rev 03)
> `----
>
> but never managed to determine the CONFIG that used ata_piix rather
> than the old ide drivers.  Each attempt left me with a kernel which
> could not mount its root....

What distribution? If you're building ata_piix and the other drivers 
(scsi, sd, etc.) as modules you'll have to play with your initrd to get 
it to load the correct modules on startup. If you build them into the 
kernel, it should just work..

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