amd74xx in initramfs preventing use of pata

[Brian J. Murrell]

The current hardy kernel and initramfs tools include the amd74xx in the initramfs which prevents the use of the corresponding PATA driver, pata_amd. Is there a particular reason for this?

I've been booted for a couple of hours now this morning with pata_amd and everything *seems* OK.

Unfortunately to force the use of pata_amd I had to change my initramfs from including "most" modules to only the ones listed in the modules file and included the needed boot modules minus the amd74xx and generic modules. This is a bit ugly to have to maintain.

Thots?

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Would you mind stating what kernel version you are using? Also, you might want to try the latest hardy kernel, 2.6.24-8-generic, which has some disk module related fixes.

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 04:45 +0000, Luke Yelavich wrote:
> Would you mind stating what kernel version you are using?

2.6.24-7-generic

> Also, you
> might want to try the latest hardy kernel, 2.6.24-8-generic, which has
> some disk module related fixes.

Sure, when it shows up. I update almost daily, so it shouldn't take
terribly long once it's showed up in the repositories.

b.

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

2.6.24-8-generic behaves no differently than -7. If I set "MODULES=most" I get the old ide driver still.

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

Any update?

I did the test as you requested and provided the results.

[Brian J. Murrell (brian-interlinx)]

Despite no updates to the same, this appears to be fixed between -8 and -16.