On 27/02/07, Will McDonald <wmcdonald at gmail.com> wrote: > mkinitrd initrd-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.sata_nv.img 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL > > Then add a new Grub entry to try booting with that initrd? If that > doesn't help, there's a bunch of stuff in the list archives, just try > browsing through anything with a mention of mkinitrd in it. Just quickly testing this, it doesn't appear to include the module unless it's explicitly preloaded with... mkinitrd --preload sata_nv -v wmcd.img 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL Compare... [root at stella boot]# mkinitrd --preload sata_nv -v wmcd.img 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL | grep ata Looking for deps of module sata_nv libata scsi_mod Looking for deps of module libata scsi_mod Using modules: ./kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko ./kernel/drivers/scsi/libata.ko ./kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_nv.ko ./kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko ./kernel/fs/jbd/jbd.ko ./kernel/fs/ext3/ext3.ko ./kernel/drivers/md/dm-mirror.ko ./kernel/drivers/md/dm-zero.ko ./kernel/drivers/md/dm-snapshot.ko copy from /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL/./kernel/drivers/scsi/libata.ko(elf32-i386) to /tmp/initrd.r10911/lib/libata.ko(elf32-i386) copy from /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL/./kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_nv.ko(elf32-i386) to /tmp/initrd.r10911/lib/sata_nv.ko(elf32-i386) Loading module libata Loading module sata_nv With... [root at stella boot]# mkinitrd -v wmcd.img 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL | grep ata Will.