Re: Two issues with 2.4.18pre3 on PPC

[Ed Sweetman]

> Hi,
>
> I am very glad that the PPC patches are now merged so I can use a
> mainstream kernel again on my iBook. Thanks to all the people who did
> this. It works quite fine so far but there are two minor problems:
>
> - 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.