On Sat, June 13, 2009 8:13 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > How about a kernel environment variable that can be set from the > bootloader to disable the driver? > > Then a person can upgrade and reboot and if they made a mistake > its a simple 'set' command at the loader prompt and they're up and > running again.
That'll work - perhaps default to the non-AHCI behavior for 2.4, and then change at 2.6? My pet issue here is having an upgrade scramble - or appear to scramble - someone's machine. Our upgrades have been remarkably painless, and I'd hate to lose that pattern.
