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fluorite

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 33

no kernel EDD support

During booting linux I've got following message

:: Loading Initramfs
no kernel EDD support
no kernel EDD support
no kernel EDD support
FATAL: Module input:b0011v0001peAB41_e0,1,4,11,14,k71,72,73,74,75,76,77,79,7A,7B,7C,7D,7E,7F,80,8C,8E,8F,96,9B,9C,9D,9E,9F,A3,A4,A5,A6,B7,B8,B9,D9,E2,ra
4,l0,1,2sfw not found.

After that linux continues to boot normally. Has anyone the same problem?

I'm using: kernel26-2.6.18-7.

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osigen

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From: cynic tub

Registered: 2005-06-18

Posts: 36

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Re: no kernel EDD support

Same error message on my machine. Boot continues normally..

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vacant

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From: downstairs

Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 816

Re: no kernel EDD support

Choose one of:

You can add edd to the modules line in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuild kernel26.img.

You can add edd=off to your boot line

You can ignore it.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,964

Re: no kernel EDD support

from http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml

BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive Services 3.0 (EDD) is mechanism to match x86 BIOS device names (e.g. int13 device 80h) to Linux device names (e.g. /dev/sda, /dev/hda). EDD is a project of a T13 committee. Matt Domsch implemented the EDD specification under Linux. This code makes real mode int13 EDD BIOS calls very early during kernel startup to obtain the Master Boot Record signature and physical location (PCI bus/device/function, IDE master/slave, SCSI ID and LUN) of BIOS-seen disks, then exports this information through /proc (2.4.x kernels) or sysfs (2.6.x kernels). This information may then be used by operating system installers to determine which disk BIOS will boot from, thus the right place to put GRUB, LILO, and your /boot and / partitions.

EDD was incorporated into the 2.5.44 kernel, and the 2.4.23-pre6 kernel. It has been included in several Linux distributions, including Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. It is being used at install time of Red Hat Enteprise Linux 4, and Novell/SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.

Few BIOSs actually implement the full EDD 3.0 specification today. Matt Domsch created a list of BIOSs reported to be good, almost good, and those who don't try to implement the spec, though the list is not being maintained any longer. This project is maintained by Matt Domsch.

It appears EDD is an extension of the INT 13 bios services for drive support, that allows larger drives ( 8 Tib) and some new options, but wasn't used  much.

fluorite, osigen , i guess these are new machines ?
I'd suggest making a bug report on flyspray, mkinitcpio may not to be adapted to works with this.

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fluorite

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 33

Re: no kernel EDD support

Adding edd to mkinitcpio.conf and rebuilding removes the "no kernel EDD support" but still I get "FATAL: Module input...."

Edit: after upgrade to kernel26 2.6.18.1-2 the msg disapeared

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