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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    [opensuse-factory] converting from legacy ide to libata manually
From:       Felix Miata <mrmazda () ij ! net>
Date:       2009-05-21 2:53:14
Message-ID: 4A14C21A.90109 () ij ! net
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I have Factory on several systems. Most still are using the legacy drivers
and live on partitions >15. I just did a first zypper dup since November on
one of these systems where / is actually on partition 10. The result of
zypper dup left the legacy drivers in use, so I tried to "upgrade" myself by
substituting ata_piix for piix in /etc/sysconfig/kernel's INITRD_MODULES
line, but that leaves the kernel unable to access /dev/root. From the shell
after root mount fails, I see via ls /dev that there are absolutely no disk
devices, nor disk directory tree. How do I get a good initrd built for libata
when the running kernel is on legacy ide?

http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/SUSE/Factory/lsinitrd26296a is lsinitrd on the
working 2.6.29 kernel with legacy IDE.
http://fm.no-ip.com/tmp/SUSE/Factory/lsinitrd26296b is from my first failed
attempt to make the switch to libata.
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 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/
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