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2.6.32-25-fitpc2i available :

axcoco wrote:2.6.32-25-fitpc2i available :

uname -a
Linux gw 2.6.32-25-fitpc2i #44 SMP Sun Oct 3 15:24:59 CEST 2010 i686 GNU/Linux


Cool - thank you axcoco!

And thank you for the explanation of your changes to the pata driver. That was good information.

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axcoco,

1) repository

Can you please tell us the details of your repository?

I would like to try it (pdata.ko and initrd) without installing the iso on some image I cooked.
So I would need to know where the key/repository is.

2) mainstream kernel patch
Are the any plans to make a proper patch at least for the pata module which can go into the mainline kernel?

Regards,

Robert

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robert.berger wrote:axcoco,
Can you please tell us the details of your repository?

That should go in /etc/apt/sources.list (as you probably know - but this is just for the sake of compleness).

In case you install the (vanilla, ubuntu 10.10) kernel on the 4 GB flash drive, how exactly do you find your 160G HD? the pata_sch module is loaded, but I cannot find the HD with fdisk, its not in /proc/partitions either. Am I missing something? Do I need other kernel modules?

Gosho wrote:In case you install the (vanilla, ubuntu 10.10) kernel on the 4 GB flash drive, how exactly do you find your 160G HD? the pata_sch module is loaded, but I cannot find the HD with fdisk, its not in /proc/partitions either. Am I missing something? Do I need other kernel modules?

I guess you will need a patched pata module in order to get the HDD detected. I had the same issue on 10.04 with flash drive install, HD was not found.

Or try to add a line in fstab and do a mount /dev/sdb1 /media/hdd but I'm not sure this will work

changing /etc/fstab is not gonna work since fdisk doesnt find the disk... The only solution will be a patched module indeed, anyone out there who can give a "how to" patch the module? This would be greatly appreciated!

Gosho wrote:changing /etc/fstab is not gonna work since fdisk doesnt find the disk... The only solution will be a patched module indeed, anyone out there who can give a "how to" patch the module? This would be greatly appreciated!

Try with this pata_sch.ko module but I won't be able to explain you how to replace it : http://fitpc2i.dexnode.com/download/ubu ... d/sources/
but i'm not sure this will work as the pata module is also in vanilla and used at boot start.

Cheers, I will have a look and hopefully give that a try asap...

Hi axcoco,
can you give a little howto on how you modified the iso image? Did you use the gui or the command line? UCKs docs are not very extensive and I have to reinstall my fitpc2i rev. 1.1 without having an usb keyboard nor a monitor available :-/ I already managed to find sufficient infos about the d-i commands to modify the iso for netbooting, but didn't get UCK to work

Thanks in advance for your kind help