Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

[Dale]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 12:49 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA
>> drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them
>> and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all. Is
>> there a boot option "noide" or some other switch I can use?
>
> You do the labeling *before* you switch to the new kernel.  Once you
> get it working correctly with your current kernel, then you can
> upgrade to the new ATA drivers and it will just work (which is the
> whole point of this exercise.)
>

I hadn't thought of that feature.  It should work regardless of which 
kernel I boot, either the old IDE drivers or the new PATA drivers.  Cool !!!

Time to start taking notes and putting ducks beaks to duck tails.

Dale

:-)  :-)