Hi... I need to recompile the 2.6.10 vanilla kernel for my suse... The problem is that my harddisk is a sata so i need to create the appropriate initrd.
The problem is that i don't know what are the necessary modules to install for my system and how i should create the initrd image as easy as possible.
I have already tried the mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10 but still at boot time the os can't find the /dev/sda6 device..
What do u suggest me doing?
Thanx

My advise, compile your own linux kernel, but when you get to the sata section (under scsi devices i believe) compile all the parts you need IN TO THE KERNEL. If you compile the parts that you absolutely need to boot into the kernel, you will not need a initrd. (Basically, just make sure you have the main harddrive device support compiled in).

So do that, get rid of the initrd stuff in the grub config and you should be set. The only reason that suse and such do initrd is that they need to do a limited amount of probing for the correct hard drive controller before the system mounts the root filesystem. In your case, you should just -know- what you need .

lspci -v is helpful if you need information on controllers in your system.

Good luck, tell me how it goes.

First you need to find out which driver is required for your S-ATA controller. This module, you may add to /etc/sysconfig/kernel

e.g. INITRD_MODULES="ata_piix reiserfs" (Intel ICH5 S-ATA controller)

Alternatively, invoke mkinitrd with the option -m <module>.

This module will be integrated into initrd together with a couple of modules it depends on. This is automatically regulated by modules.dep (created during kernel compilation).

Don't forget to specify the kernel when you run mkinitrd. Otherwise it will be created for your old kernel.