Re: ide=reverse do we still need this?

2008-02-19 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:32:49PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:43:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: Can't you just boot with /dev/disk/by-id/ and an initramfs to not have to worry about such a thing in the future? Initramfs isn't something I've ever tried, so I'm

Re: ide=reverse do we still need this?

2008-02-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:43:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: Can't you just boot with /dev/disk/by-id/ and an initramfs to not have to worry about such a thing in the future? Can comebody remind me what the initramfs is for in that situation, please ? From the little I've noticed, I thought

Re: ide=reverse do we still need this?

2008-02-12 Thread Ken Moffat
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,