Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["David Flood" <davidf4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, I tried both initrd and initramfs.  The IDE stuff is included as
modules by default by mkinitrd since there is an active IDE controller.

However, looking at dmesg on a mixed scsi / ide system (linux on scsi) and
on a failed upgrade ide only system indicates that the modules are ignoring
the command line parm.  And if you put the parm into modprobe.conf.local, it
is picked up but then the modules puke since they don't know what to do with
it.

So, the decision to put a install a different kernel than the one used for
the cdrom boot means that people will get a non-functional, unbootable
system if their prime disk has an overlay.  I could tolerate it if the
kernel on the cdrom boot image also had this problem and it just failed to
detect the partitions before the upgrade started.

I'll drop the issue for now and go back to 9.1.  It seems to be the last
version that works with my configurations.

Thanks for all who read my messages.  Back to lurking.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: meister@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:meister@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 6:40 PM


on -maybe stupid- question:
Did you try to load the IDE-module in initrd and pass hda=remap on 
kernel commandline? The initrd get loaded before the kernel so the 
commandline parameter should hit the loaded IDE-support from initrd. And did
you try to use initrd not initramfs? On ppc I was only able to 
boot a xfs-root-partition if I load the module xfs in an 
initrd...initramfs did not work...