On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 20:03 +0100, dragoran wrote: > [..] > > I didn't say we should have all modules in the initrd. But having the > > most common would IMHO a good thing. > > +1 for having all pata/sata drivers in the initrd by default. One of the things that used to make Linux superior to Windows is the fact that you could pop out a hard drive and plug it into an entirely different machine, and it would Just Work. Well, except for X. Stupid X. But at least you could boot it, switch the X driver and be done with it. But then initrds were introduced, and now we're baking in system specifics into it. Now I have all kinds of trouble with drivers not being found, and volume groups not being found. Only solution is to boot a rescue disk and rebuild the initrd, using an incredibly arcane series of commands. I pity the n00b who tries to upgrade their system. And Windows has gotten worse in this regard too. Back in the days of Win95/98, you could ALWAYS, at the very least, boot the system into rescue mode, go into the device manager, select the PCI bus and remove it. This forced it to rescan and reload all the drivers. 5-10 reboots later, bam, you're done. But now with Windows XP, if you change the motherboard out from under it, its quite likely to not boot. At all. Not even rescue mode. You're screwed. You have to re-install from scratch. Supposedly there's a way to "reseal" Windows XP, but you have to do it *before* you switch the board. I was unaware of this method until it was too late so I didn't get a chance to try it. And no, I'm even using a copy of XP Pro which is free of activation bullshit. I pity the fool who buys a legitimate XP. (And no, I do in fact have a legitimate XP Pro license, it came stuck to the bottom of my (used) laptop :) http://www.motherboard.windowsreinstall.com/winxp.htm#Solution%204:% 20Microsoft%20SYSPREP%A0
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