Re: [discuss] "ide=reverse" do we still need this?

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Feb 13 2008 - 15:54:55 EST


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
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