On 10/03/2009, Ken Teh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> How does a system determine the appropriate sata driver?  Specifically, how
> does anaconda figure out to write
>
>  alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
>
>  in my modprobe.conf and to bind it into my initrd image?
>
>  I took apart boot.iso but didnt find anything "readable" that indicated how
> this was determined.

Ken,

I wonder if the "helper script", get-driver.sh, referenced on p61 of
"Linux Kernel in a Nutshell" by Greg Kroah-Hartman and available to
download from the publisher's web-site [1] will be any use to you?

Regards,
Alan.

[1] http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596100797/examples.tar.gz