On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Gill, Vern wrote:
> Sam Flory wrote:
> I am not using initrd. I should not have to use it.
You have to, if the IDE driver is not directly compiled into the
the kernel. But I digress.
> The laptop does not.
I suspect that if you check /etc/conf.modules on your laptop and
compare it with the /etc/conf.modules file on your desktop (or
whatever) you will that they are different with regard to IDE
module configurations.
> 2.4.0 worked beautifully on it without the ide in the kernel. It is a
> module there, and there are no problems with it. The lilo.conf entry for
> it uses the exact same root= as the default RH kernel installed
> initially. I do NOT want the ide in the kernel. It should not have to be
> there. There is some other problem, I just don't know what.
Okay, I see where you are coming from now. Again, you have to
have either the IDE driver directly into the kernel or be loading
the IDE driver from a ramdisk first as I suspect is the case with
your laptop. So to prepare the ram disk you need to use the
'mkinitrd' utility which reads module info from
/etc/conf.modules. Which means you have to have the IDE module
configured in /etc/conf.modules (at least temporarily) before
running 'mkinitrd' on your desktop.
HTH,
LG
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