On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:15:07PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > I'm curious if we really still support the ide=reverse option? It's a > config option that I don't think the distros still enable (SuSE does > not). Is this still needed these days? > My "server" has a consumer-grade desktop amd64 mobo, with all that implies about cheap hardware and strange/misleading bios options. It also has an add-in dual IDE card with the main data on raid1. It's set to ide=reverse, without that it doesn't boot (the add-ins are IDE, system drive is SATA, so I guess it probably tries to boot from the DVD - it's been a long time since it bit me and I don't remember the full details. That was how it was set for 2.6.18.6, and how it now boots from 2.6.22.18. I think at one time the order of the interfaces might have been different. Certainly, I carry forward a fallback without ide=reverse in lilo.conf, just in case the disks move on my next kernel upgrade. What a distro selects should cover most of that distro's users, but that is not anywhere near providing 100% coverage for *all* the hardware out there. Also, you can force your users to e.g. mount by label. So far, that hasn't been forced on me, and I really hate having to reboot that box :) Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce - 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
