On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:31 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Griffin schrieb: > > > > > > > pointed out.. system would not boot, I needed to change my /dev/hda2 > > > references to /dev/sda2 references in fstab and grub menu.lst. > Installation > > > used legacy IDE drivers, boot used PATA drivers. > > > PATA should be the default now! Almost nobody will need IDE (except > maybe > > > for sis controllers). > > > > > > > So it should be a simple matter of modifying the mkinitcpio config to > > match the stock kernel's - except, of course, for the typical archiso > > stuff. > > > > Actually, I think there should be two configurations: One with PATA and one > with IDE (as long as we use grub, it's easy to have several). The installer > should somehow remember what choice we made at boot time and modify the > system's mkinitcpio.conf.
That's actually a good idea - make 2 ramfs images for IDE and PATA. Or... well that naming might be confusing. Stock and "Legacy IDE" or something 8)
