[ale] How to put HPT372 module into the kernel at boot properly?

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

You can make an initrd with the module in it it. It won't onlad after
the system is up and running, but that is not a problem.

The stuff they offer to compile as a module uses a library which is
compiled. It has no source code available, so...

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 13:35, Dow Hurst wrote:
> I'd like to finish my Gentoo install but have run into a problem.  I 
> need to have the kernel understand my HPT372 builtin to the motherboard 
> controller for the two disks I have on the two disk controllers that the 
> HPT372 runs.  Currently when I boot with the initial installation CD, I 
> have /dev/hde and /dev/hdg available.  /dev/hda is the DVD drive.  The 
> Abit MB has IDE 1 and 2 as normal controllers and IDE 3 and 4 as the 
> Raid controllers under the HPT372 chips control.
> 
> I've downloade the HPT372 source and compiled it successfully, but need 
> to know how to make it part of the kernel or available to the kernel 
> immediately on boot.  I know the Reiserfs module is inserted via initrd 
> under SuSE.  What do I do with Gentoo?  Grub acted strange by treating 
> my /dev/hde and /dev/hdg as not existing and would recognize somehow a 
> /dev/hda.  Bizarre with that.
> 
> Anyway, what would be the best way to approach this?  I only have the 
> two matched disks in the machine.  I could put an additional drive, an 
> old 2Gb, on the IDE1 controller as /dev/hda.  Switch the DVD drive to 
> /dev/hdb and just load the HPT372 as a module after initial boot.
> 
> Any advice?
> Dow
> 
> 
> 
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