FAI Install Kernel and SATA disks

[Jens Dreger]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 12:47:18PM +0200, Torsten Schlabach wrote:
> Dear list!
> 
> Does anyone have any prior experience regarding install clients which 
> have sata disks, namely:
> 
> 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID 
> Controller (rev 80)

Yes. Installing ETCH with linux-image-2.6.18-fai-kernels_1_i386.deb
works:

root at z6:~> lspci | grep VT6420
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA
RAID Controller (rev 80)
 
> The FAI kernel (2.6.20) does not seem to have a matching driver compiled 
> it, but I also cannot find any module to load.

That would be sata_via, I guess:

root at z6:~> dmesg| grep sata_via
sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: version 2.1
sata_via 0000:00:0f.0: routed to hard irq line 11
scsi0 : sata_via

But you are right, it seems to be missing in
linux-image-2.6.20-fai-kernels_1_i386.deb from testing:

dreger at smart:..fai/kernel> dpkg -x
linux-image-2.6.20-fai-kernels_1_i386.deb .
dreger at smart:..fai/kernel> grep IDE_SATA boot/config-2.6.20-fai-kernels 
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_SATA is not set

root at zs13:..nfsroot-etch-i386-cvs/boot> grep SATA_VIA config-2.6.18-fai-kernels 
CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_VIA=m

The name of CONFIG-Options for this has changed in 2.6.20 or so. To me
it looks like you can't install with linux-image-2.6.20-fai-kernels on
any SATA-drive :)

I'd suggest you try 2.6.18 from stable.

Regards,

Jens.

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