How To Compile A Kernel - The Mandriva Way missing sata module

Hello,
I have followed precisely the nice description provided by howtoforge.com on my Mandriva 2007.1,
still when I wanted to make the initrd:
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21.1-custom.img 2.6.21.1-custom
I got the message:
"No module ata_piix found for kernel 2.6.21.1-custom, aborting."
It seems that besides the ata_piix.ko another module ahci is missing
I guess related to sata driving.
Do you have any idea how to solve this ? Copying these modules from earlier versions does not help.

 

What's in /etc/modules?

 

It is empty ...
Geza

 

What's the output of

Code:

ls -l /etc

? I think there must be a modules.d directory or something similar.

 

ls /etc/mod*
/etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.preload /etc/modules

/etc/modprobe.d:
ipw3945d ldetect-lst.conf visor

/etc/modprobe.preload.d:
cpufreq floppy

 

Can you check the files in /etc/modprobe.d and /etc/modprobe.preload.d as well as /etc/modprobe.conf if ata_piix is mentioned there somewhere?

 

Hello,
in /etc/modprobe.conf I found:

install scsi_hostadapter /sbin/modprobe ata_piix; /sbin/modprobe ahci; /sbin/mod
probe sbp2; /bin/true

 

Can you comment out that line and try again?

 

Commenting out that line the mkinitrd works indeed. However I could not boot with the new
kernel. I got a kernel panic message. I shall have a closer look or redo the whole procedure.

If I comment the the ata_piix line from the /etc/modprobe.conf do I still have proper sata disk handling ?

 

What were the error messages before the kernel panic?

 

First it can't boot in video mode:
"unknown video mode" and makes it text mode
... then
"mount: error 6 mounting ext2 flags noatime ..
switching to new root
ERROR opening /dev/console!!!
switching to new root failed
initrd finished
Kernel panic "

 

It seems that your new kernel is missing some options. I don't know if this is related to the ata_piix module. I guess all you can do is compile a new kernel and play around with the options during make menuconfig (you did load the configuration file of the working kernel, didn't you?).

 

Yes, I did. OK maybe I shall try with an other kernel if I have time...
Anyway I just wanted to have a kernel ( >= 2.6.18), which can handle
syntekdriver. I also tried this with the 2.6.21-linus Mandriva official, but
the make always crashes ...