[Voyage-linux] Voyage not working on Soekris 4501 anymore due to IDE driver not found

[John Coltrane]

Hi Etienne,

On 07/28/2013 11:17 PM, Etienne Favey wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> In the recent versions of Voyage, i.e. all versions after lenny,
> the build will not work on a Soekris 4501 anymore, as it will not find its root file system
> on the CF disk.
>
> My investigations have led me to believe, that the ide-generic driver is only available
> as a module, but it must be compiled into the kernel for it to find the IDE and CF disk at boot time.
>
> Unfortunately, it is not possible to tell the kernel by any command line parameter to load that
> module. The parameter all_generic_ide will also not yield the desired effect of having the module
> loaded. In the current build I alyways have to "modprobe ide-generic" on the console whenever the
> kernel complains about not finding a root file system, so that the module is loaded.
in std linux you can build a initial-ramdisk which incorporates modules 
that the kernel needs to boot on a particular hardware.

Maybe you should have a look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd or the 
appropriate manpages.

HtH,

-John


>
> Would it be possible to have the ide-generic compiled in again in a fixed manner for future voyage
> versions? This would be very helpful so I do not have to go through the pain of recompiling the
> kernel for the voyage distro. Or did I miss any other way of making it work?
>
> Thanks,
> Etienne
>
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