https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=371929 Summary: ide-generic not included in initrd Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: standard_sg@yahoo.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: Customer This bug is possibly in reference to the bug listed at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=135612 Also, is closely related to the thread referenced by http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-02/msg01111.html I've tried installing openSUSE 10.3 on a couple of different Pentium 3 machines. Rather than using a standard hard drive, I'm using a CompactFlash (CF) card with a CF to IDE adapter. That aspect may be irrelevant, but I've included it anyways. During the initial install, it was unable to find any of the IDE devices (CF or CDROM). I was using the mini CD for installing over the network where I had the DVD ISO mounted on another machine running a web server. To get the installer to properly detect my IDE devices, I had to include the following boot options prior to the installation: brokenmodules=ata_piix,piix insmod=ide-generic Once I did this, it detected my devices and everything installed without any problems. But once it rebooted the machine to boot from the hard drive (CF card) for the first time, it was unable to detect any IDE devices once again, where it stops at 'Waiting for device xxx to appear..'. This was confusing since 'insmod=ide-generic' was automatically included in my initrd line in GRUB. After numerous installs with different options, I finally realized that the ide-generic module was not built into the installed initrd image, as mentioned in the thread referenced earlier, so it actually was not getting loaded at all. I was able to fix this by booting the install CD with the same options I used during the install, and then selecting boot an installed system and selecting the root partition. This way it loaded the installer's initrd first with the proper modules. Once it booted, I modified /etc/sysconfig/kernel and added 'ide-generic' to INITRD_MODULES. I ran mkinitrd and rebooted, and then it found my IDE devices and everything was fine. I verified that the ide-generic.ko module was in this initrd image, while it was not there in the originally installed initrd. It seems like this was an old problem that never really got corrected. Basically, I would expect that if I specified insmod=ide-generic as a boot option during the install, it should include that option in the boot loader (which it did), but it should also automatically include that module in the initrd image (which it didn't). This expectation should be regardless of what hardware I'm using; if I explicitly specify it, it should automatically include it. It did properly exclude the modules I specified with the brokenmodules option, so why didn't it include the modules I specified with insmod? If this is a bug, it was never fixed before, and I assume it's still a problem in the 10.x line. I'm opening this as a separate bug rather than a new one, since it should be considered a hardware independent problem, while the previous bug was focusing on a particular hardware. SG -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.