i've got a dimension 8300 with sata raid device. for most of FC3
lifetime, i've had to do
/sbin/mkinitrd --with=sata_promise --with=ata_piix --with=sd_mod
-f initrd-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp.img 2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp
after getting a new kernel since they don't include sata support in the
distributed image.
boot fails with this very latest image with the following error message
insmod error inserting /lib/sata_promise.ko: -1 unknown symbol in module
... and then it says error reading superblock and goes down hill from there.
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/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_sil.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_promise.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_sx4.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_nv.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_vsc.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_via.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_uli.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_svw.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_sis.ko