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

[Etienne Favey]

On 29.07.2013 21:24, John Coltrane wrote:
> 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.

Dear John,

Thanks for this hint, based on this I also found the helpful page on
http://backreference.org/2010/07/04/modifying-initrdinitramfs-files/

thus I have unpacked the /initrd.img
then added a file conf/modules containing the line
ide-generic
and then repacked the /initrd.img

Now it works well again and the driver is found during boot.
And this is much less painful than recompiling a kernel package.

Regards,
Etienne