Continuing the saga: F9alpha AMD-64 HP DC7700 SFF switch_root: no filesystems

[John Summerfield]

As reported elsewhere, I've eventually managed to get busybox into my 
initrd, and figured out why it was getting deleted.

Hint
When all else fails, this command helps:
echo *

A problem is that when it returned an asterisk, I couldn't believe my eyes.

I can now get in and type commands such as
mount
lsmod

and so on.

They reveal that the expected four ata kernel modules are in place:
pata_acpi
ata_generic
ata_piix
libata

Can anyone think of anything else?


Note that the ATA buses are detected - a full transcription is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/process_bug.cgi
and so's the SATA DVD drive, Just not the two SATA drives.

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Cheers
John

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