On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:00:15PM +0100, Dirk GOUDERS wrote: > > > Hm, so, to summarize: > > - you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly > > - you don't need this today > > > > So, if the option went away, you would not be inconvenienced? > > After having reanimated the old system and after comments of other > persons I would not be inconvenienced if the option went away. > > The system indeed did not boot correctly without that option, because > the disks appeared in a wrong order. On the other hand, I was able to > (re)install bootloaders (grub as well as lilo) and after that did not > need the option any more. Unfortunately, after that I was not able to > reproduce the initial situation where the option was needed. Great, thanks a lot for testing this, and letting us know. greg k-h - 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
