> This doesn't help distro installers with modular libata, as there's > no good way to get the parameter to the driver. (libata.pata_dma=0 > just causes "unrecognized parameter" message on boot.) And for how long have people been saying that Fedora needs to sort out passing module parameters from the boot command line via anaconda ? So I'm sorry but "Mummy my installer sucks" doesn't get sympathy. Distribution problem not kernel. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html