Re: Web site on IDE patch status

[Jeff Garzik]

Andre Hedrick wrote:
> 
> In order to get the off board cards to boot you have to enable the option
> first, now comes the FUN!!!!!!!!!
> 
> You are now required to determine the PCI card slot order.
> Since LILO does not like to boot drives beyond the fourth device, in IDE
> land.  You must call "pci=reverse" to invert the pci-device scan order.

Is it possible to avoid this by using 'append' ?

ie. instead of specifying a 'root' in a lilo.conf's image section, add
'append=root=/dev/...'