SATA issues when booting Ubuntu

[Joshua Bassett]

I just had a thought...

I checked in /etc/modules and sata_sil is not there. So, is hotplug
the thing responsible for loading the sata_sil kernel module at boot
time? Perhaps hotplug is being run *after* fstab is processed.

If this is the case, the Ubuntu installer should have added the
sata_sil module into my modules.conf during the install, or Ubuntu
should ensure that hotplug runs *before* fstab-ing.

What do you all think?

nullobject


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:58:57 +1300, Joshua Bassett
<josh.bassett at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2 board which (I think) uses a Silicon
> Image sil3112A SATA controller.
> 
> lsmod reveals that the sata_sil kernel module has indeed been loaded.
> However, I believe the problem is that this module is not loaded (and
> thus the drive not present) at the time fstab is processed. Some time
> after fstab is processed this module gets loaded fine, that's why I
> can mount it manually after init is over (mount /home).
> 
> Is there any way I can explicitly load my modules *before* fstab-ing?
> Can anyone else relate to this situation? As I said in a previous
> email, Debian Sid seems to suffer from the same symptoms for me.
> 
> Thanks everyone,
> 
> nullobject
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 01:23:37 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at raw.no> wrote:
> > Which SATA chipset do you have?
>