FATAL: Loading ATA modules

[Martin Steinmann]

I am using the latest kadischi to build a LiveCD on FC6. When booting
the kernel, the LiveCD reports errors as follows:

Loading ATA modules

FATAL: Module ata_generic not found

FATAL: Module pata_ali not found

...

And about 30 other PATA modules.

The error seems benign as it finishes booting successfully. Is there a
way to get rid of these error messages?

--thanks

--martin

[J. Hartline]

Martin Steinmann wrote:
> I am using the latest kadischi to build a LiveCD on FC6. When booting 
> the kernel, the LiveCD reports errors as follows:
>
> Loading ATA modules
>
> FATAL: Module ata_generic not found
>
> FATAL: Module pata_ali not found
>
> …
>
> And about 30 other PATA modules.
>
> The error seems benign as it finishes booting successfully. Is there a 
> way to get rid of these error messages?

Starting with Fedora 7, these ATA modules are needed to drive important 
motherboard ATA chipsets.
Fedora Core 6 doesn't require this, and the modules of course do not 
exist in Fedora Core 6 kernels either.

To get rid of the messages, just edit your 
kadischi/linuxrc/livecd-linuxrc file from a CVS checkout
and remove the ATA module loading section.

If you have Kadischi already compiled and installed, edit your 
/usr/share/kadischi/initrd/livecd-linuxrc
script and remove the same ATA module loading section. If you did not 
pass any prefix to autogen.sh
and compiled straight from CVS, your installation will be in 
/usr/local/share/kadischi/ otherwise the
previously mentioned paths should work for you.

Since this is more of a cosmetic issue, I did not put any script-fu into 
the NASH script to only load
the modules if they exist, I do not expect it to change from Fedora 7 to 
Fedora 8 so they simply
do not exist, and of course do not get loaded for Fedora Core 6.

J. Hartline