[ale] How to put HPT372 module into the kernel at boot properly?

[Dow Hurst]

I am doing the gentoo-users email suggestion. Â Thanks for the info. Â I might
just use the extra old drive option to get things moving. Â I'll see what
responses I get from the gentoo list.
Dow


Charles Marcus wrote:

  Hey Dow,

Yikes, afraid I can't help you with this one.  Have you subscribed to the
Gentoo list?  They usually respond to questions within minutes...

http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-user

Or you could go yack on the forums:

http://forums.gentoo.org/

The list isn't extremely high volume, and has lots of good info - definitely
worth it if you are gonna give Gentoo a serious look.

Charles

  
  
    From: Dow Hurst [mailto:dhurst at kennesaw.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 1:36 PM

I'd like to finish my Gentoo install but have run into a
problem.  I need to have the kernel understand my HPT372
builtin to the motherboard controller for the two disks I
have on the two disk controllers that the HPT372 runs.
Currently when I boot with the initial installation CD, I
have /dev/hde and /dev/hdg available.  /dev/hda is the DVD
drive.  The Abit MB has IDE 1 and 2 as normal controllers
and IDE 3 and 4 as the Raid controllers under the HPT372
chips control.

I've downloade the HPT372 source and compiled it successfully,
but need to know how to make it part of the kernel or available
to the kernel immediately on boot.  I know the Reiserfs module
is inserted via initrd under SuSE.  What do I do with Gentoo?
Grub acted strange by treating my /dev/hde and /dev/hdg as not
existing and would recognize somehow a /dev/hda.  Bizarre with
that.

Anyway, what would be the best way to approach this?  I only
have the two matched disks in the machine.  I could put an
additional drive, an old 2Gb, on the IDE1 controller as /dev/hda.
Switch the DVD drive to /dev/hdb and just load the HPT372 as a
module after initial boot.

Any advice?
Dow
    
  
  

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