[plug] 2.6 Kernels, Upgrading from kernel with devfs, to kernel without

[Ian Kent]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Timothy White wrote:

> Ok, more reading on the net has lead my to the IDE drivers them
> selves. It appears that for some reason lots of 2.6 kernel configs
> seem to have them compiled as modules by default. Of course this means
> they are available when the system starts. Not a problem if your
> booting from SCSI, big problem if you are booting from ATA devices.

Or you have an appropriate initrd image.

Ian