Hi, On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, David Flood wrote:
Well, the results are...
Suse 10 is incompatible with any IDE drive overlay that requires a kernel command line parameter.
The hda=remap command is only implemented if passed as a parameter to the kernel and IDE support is compiled in. It can not be passed as a module parameter.
So, until an updated kernel rpm is built that contains the same kernel as is used by the boot cdrom image, Suse 10 is not compatible with any ide drive that uses a drive overlay.
If and when an updated kernel rpm is built, then people can somehow get that rpm onto their system, boot to rescue mode, and then install it with 'rpm -Uvh' but until then...thank you for playing.
It seems you are right. The whole /usr/src/linux/drivers/ide/ directory does not contain any MODULE_PARM line. So, due to the poor ide driver code quality, it would be best SUSE would decide not to modularize IDE disk support, or to hire some better experts than the current kernel.org IDE maintainers... Dear Jens Axboe, wasn't that your field once? ;-)) Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)