From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Oow64-0002W3-Nc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:23:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0788E08E0; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:23:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D875E08E0 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:23:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywp4 with SMTP id 4so1600449ywp.40 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:23:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Wn8YZv+/XlqyaymlV5owYeu0SKORpcdNj5/vFuqCt0M=; b=nu1Wt4XGyksBXJaJGmJmat0UZIKdk1yLV/pZOAUVqHWrrQorhcI2DnMJzMS/gMz8T6 GS5rIpJz7o9pmbdLMnBlStJwPILMtdrlh2A24kYgoF+16/GFqgGz0nyMd4MAgdi3SwUP MsKfeVgq3ya/yUG+0kxCKX5sIALIqkx529YcA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jYGZH1EXlUcl31IJqb12SqqJjx2/BHzpQZVGMDmnbNOaj+bQObDvNfLgqYV+2GJ+nd cw7JX3UvD5iNyu5KHyi8mWpPrJr4wNEgRP4rtJoFQVUpkhL0E5utXprTKHTwzvnihD7c gVJh7GAXxxMP55fr9AHpQ1nXhVAxcYNf4H9GQ= Received: by 10.101.211.11 with SMTP id n11mr613750anq.91.1282904617230; Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:23:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-152-165.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.152.165]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h5sm6052297anb.8.2010.08.27.03.23.35 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:23:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C779226.8010703@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:23:34 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100801 Gentoo/2.0.6 SeaMonkey/2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers References: <4C776B2A.4040201@gmail.com> <201008271137.05263.joost@antarean.org> <4C778A0C.6080201@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ad8ffc7a-a671-488b-82a1-3783a0c24c01 X-Archives-Hash: d8270c9626f98e5f906c850b59cc053b 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 :-) :-)