Known issues with nForce4-4x chipset and recent kernels?

[Matthias Saou]

Willem Riede wrote :

> On 03/25/2006 09:39:37 AM, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > 
> > I can boot from the sata drive on that controller too, but again, even
> > after loading sata_sil from the initrd, it doesn't find the drive,
> > complains about /dev/root not found etc. and panics.
> > 
> > Seems like I'm really stuck as none of sata_nv, sata_sil or the normal ata
> > seem to work with recent kernels.
> 
> Are you sure you have all the right modules in your initrd?
> I don't have the same motherboard as you do, but am able to boot with / on sata_nv (raid).

I'm pretty sure I do and that it's not the problem, because :
- The FC5 installation loads sata_nv and sata_sil but doesn't "see"
anything even once they're loaded.
- Adding the same modules to the FC3 kernel's initrd makes things work.

Matthias

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