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On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:45 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: |
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> How are the modules to be included in the initrd computed? |
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> I'm seeing something strange where some of the modules in the real |
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> filesystem version of the /lib/modules/.../drivers/scsi are missing from |
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> the initrd filesystem version of the same directory; in particular one |
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> of the drivers for my SATA disks (ata_piix) is not there. Others are |
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> missing as well. |
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> It's genkernel that's doing this, right? I'm trying to follow along in |
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> the gen_initrd.sh script but I can't quite see what it's doing WRT |
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> modules. |
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genkernel's /usr/share/genkernel/$arch/modules_load |
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I recommend unmasking the latest genkernel 3.2.0_pre version and using |
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that, as it will be going stable shortly. I also recommend doing the |
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same with the masked version of catalyst. |
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I *NEED* testers for these, as I plan on them going stable before 2005.1 |
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is released and I would love to resolve as many bugs in them as |
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possible. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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