SATA issues when booting Ubuntu

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:08:45PM +1300, Joshua Bassett wrote:

> 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.

Correct.

> 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?

This issue has been lurking for a while, but it's not something that we can
fix for the impending release of Warty.  I think that probably hotplug
should run earlier in the boot process, but this is a major change to the
boot process which would require extensive regression testing.

A simple workaround for now is to add the drivers you need to mount your
filesystems to /etc/modules.

(there should probably be a bug in Bugzilla to track this...)

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 - mdz