[Soekris] Net5501 - Debian 4.0 "Etch" - from EIDE to SATA

[Diego Pastore]

Hi Nix,

I dist-upgraded to Debian "Lenny" 5.0 and now I've 2.6.26 kernel.

And yes, I use a Debian stock kernel and stock initrd image, but I'd 
like to know SATA kernel module name, and if and how I need to "force" 
loading SATA kernel module and/or rebuil initrd image in order to have 
SATA module loaded.

Thank you very much.

Diego

Nix ha scritto:
> On 19 May 2009, Diego Pastore said:
>   
>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>> #
>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
>> /dev/mapper/pastrix1-root /               ext3    
>> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
>> /dev/hda1       /boot           ext3    defaults        0       2
>>     
>
> This becomes /dev/sda1, and you'd better make sure that vgscan runs on
> the next boot (which I think happens automatically). As everything else
> is using LVM, the vgscan should pick it up.
>
>   
>> Module                  Size  Used by
>> ipv6                  213984  42
>> tun                    10368  1
>> pc87360                17040  0
>>     
> [...]
>
> It looks very like you're using a Debian stock kernel. This should pick
> up SATA stuff automatically --- but I'd *really* recommend doing a
> dist-upgrade to Debian 5.0 first, as SATA support in 2.6.18 was really
> very embryonic (there were a lot of major bugs, all of which have since
> been shaken out).
>
> Other than that it should just work.
>