[arch-dev-public] Issue on kernel 2.6.25 upgrade

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Eric Belanger
<belanger at astro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>
>
> > Thomas Bächler schrieb:
> >
> > > Dan McGee schrieb:
> > >
> > > > I've pasted the full output below, but what I wanted to point out is
> > > > the "missing ide-cd module" part. Some of us unfortunately still have
> > > > to use IDE.
> > > >
> > >
> > > How is it the sis driver is still not stable? (So glad my old board is
> broken).
> > >
> > >  > /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26.img
> > >  > :: Begin build
> > >  > :: Parsing hook [base]
> > >  > :: Parsing hook [udev]
> > >  > :: Parsing hook [autodetect]
> > >  > :: Parsing hook [ide]
> > >  > ERROR: module 'ide[-_]cd' not found
> > >
> > > Okay, it has been renamed to ide-cd_mod. I always wondered why we add
> the CD modules in there anyway: Nobody needs CD drives during initramfs. If
> he/she does (live cd), one can add it by hand. I will drop the CD modules
> from the mkinitcpio hooks completely.
> > >
> > >
> > > > In addition, the kernel26.preset.pacnew file was installed with 600
> > > > permissions...any reason why it is so restrictive?
> > > >
> > >
> > > No idea. I am using install -D -m644 to install the .preset, so it is
> your turn to tell me why.
> > >
> >
> > http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=mkinitcpio.git;a=summary
> >
> >
> >
>
>  Do you plan to release soon a new mkinitcpio package with that fix? I have
> the same problem as Dan for my i686 system. I haven't updated to the new
> kernel yet because of that.

It won't break your bootup unless you are booting from a CD device, so
you should be fine- it continues making the image and works fine.

-Dan