How to change builtin kernel driver load order? [solved]

[mikers456]

Hi,

Any help would be appreciated.

The problem: It looks like (in dmesg) my raid (md) device driver is trying to detect the RAID1 array BEFORE the PROMISE IDE drivers are loaded, and hence it fails to find my HD attached to the PROMIES controller. This is a problem because one of my raid partitions is on the PROMISE controller.

What I want: I want to change the order of builtin kernel drivers so that the stupid thing FIRST detects the Promise card, then tries the md/RAID detection thing.

I have: 2.6.7-r1 gentoo-dev-sources kernel.
Important hardware: Promise Ultra100 TX2 controller (non-raid), built-in PCI IDE on motherboard (which hosts BOOT partition). Using software RAID1 between hard disk on /dev/hda and /dev/hdf, hda being on the PCI-IDE controller and hdf on the promise.

Background: I had everything working PERFECTLY until i decided to add a promise card, and move my second HD to it. Now I can access it after booting, but my raid doesn't get autoconfigured at boot because the order of the promise driver and raid driver should be flipped. hda works fine, the promise controller works fine, the hard disk on the promise is perfectly accessible after boot up, but my raid1 is not operational (I can add it later, but I would prefer at boot time) because of the promise driver.

All my promise, raid and PCI-IDE drivers are kernel level (not modules), so init scripts and such won't help. This must be some kernel parameter, or kernel compilation option i'm not aware of.

My raidtab looks like:

[mikers456]

Turns out that the promise driver WAS trying to load as a module. Changed that and the dependencies resolved just fine.

[drescherjm]