Re: Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC

Lukas Geyer (geyer@ml.kva.se)
Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:56:40 +0100 (CET)


On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ed Sweetman wrote:

> > - The kernel ignores the boot parameter hdb=ide-scsi, it probes hdb anyway
> > and loads the ATAPI CD-ROM driver. The problem may be (I am really not
> > familiar with the kernel internals) the function pmac_ide_probe() in
> > drivers/ide/ide-pmac.c which does not check for any kernel boot
> > parameters at all.
> This has beed changed for some time now. You need to pass some ignore
> argument to the ide-cdrom driver and load it first then load the ide-scsi
> which will detect any remaining atapi devices. I could give you the exact
> line if my system wasn't dead at the moment.

O.K., thanks, please forget this one. It is solved now and it was not a
kernel problem, it was one of those PEBKAC ones... :)

Lukas

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