On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 04:13:49PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Why do the drives get numbered in a different order? > > > > In 2.4, the drivers for both your controllers were built into the > > kernel. They probably got probed in alphabetical order, which > > Nope, they get probed in the precise order that is defined in the IDE > driver (there's a lengthy struct populated with IDE driver inits in the > code, the order of which may be governed by subtle rules like which > driver init might interfere with others, and the IDE maintainer will > sure have my head for suggesting to tamper with the list :-). > > Move ide_pmac up in this list to have it always probed first. Isn´t > there a config option ´prob eonboard chipsets first´in 2.6? What does it > do in this case?
Why not use discover in the initrd ? Would this be too place consuming ? Friendly, Sven Luther