FC3 SMP builds do NOT contain ext3 drivers in the build!!!!

Robin Bowes robin-gmane at robinbowes.com
Fri Dec 3 18:49:21 UTC 2004


Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Create your initial ramdisk image using mkinitrd with
> "with=sata_promise". Or set the modprobe.conf like shown below and the
> mkinitrd tool will place the additional modules too into the ramdisk
> image file.

OK, I may give this a go if a new kernel has not appeared next week.

> More likely than a new kernel a mkinitrd rpm update would be needed. Or
> a corrected hardware detection setting
> 
> alias scsi_hostadapter sata_promise
> 
> in the /etc/modprobe.conf.

What puzzles me is why the single-processor version of the same kernel 
works. I mean, I had assumed they would be built exactly the same but 
with --target=smp (or whatever) for the smp kernel. Is that too simplistic?

R.




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