Bug 219790 – kernel command-line should include all-generic-ide to support users with generic EIDE driver at least

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Martin Mokrejš 2008-04-30 00:41:45 UTC]

I believe this will be FAQ soon. Recent Intel chipsets do not have IDE interface anymore. Other vendors picked up but are not well supported by current drivers. Fortunately there is a generic ide driver. Although it is enabled in the distribution kernel it does not attempt to enable the controllers. It appears to me adding this command-line option is safe. Please note the following line in dmesg output.

IDE generic will claim all unknown PCI IDE storage controllers.


MSI P35 Neo2, ICH9R, Marvel 88SE6111 PATA/IDE chipset

[Comment 1 Martin Mokrejš 2008-04-30 00:45:16 UTC]

Created attachment 151382 [details]
dmesg-livecdx86_64-2008.0_beta1.txt

To get the CD-ROM filesystem mounted instead of hitting the ash shell, I have to append all-generic-ide to kernel command-line.

[Comment 2 Martin Mokrejš 2008-04-30 00:46:20 UTC]

Created attachment 151383 [details]
dmesg-2.6.24-gentoo-r4-default.txt

My customized kernel.

[Comment 3 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2011-06-19 13:07:53 UTC]

I don't think this is needed nor desired.

@kernel:

Do you have any input?

[Comment 4 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2011-09-14 14:07:20 UTC]

No reply and I still think this shouldn't be done.