This can improve the usability of some boot managers such as lilo
when booting from a drive on an off-board controller.
- If you say Y here, and you actually want to reverse the device scan
- order as explained above, you also need to issue the kernel command
- line option "ide=reverse". (Try "man bootparam" or see the
- documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to
- pass options to the kernel at boot time.)
-
Note that, if you do this, the order of the hd* devices will be
rearranged which may require modification of fstab and other files.
reference to device 0x80. The other solution is to say Y to "Boot
off-board chipsets first support" (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD) unless
your mother board has the chipset natively mounted. Regardless one
- should use the fore mentioned option and call at LILO or include
- "ide=reverse" in LILO's append-line.
+ should use the fore mentioned option and call at LILO.
This driver requires dynamic tuning of the chipset during the
ide-probe at boot. It is reported to support DVD II drives, by the