I have 2 disks on the motherboard controller (440bx); installed kernel-image-2.4.16, which saw the hpt370 controller I have; now I want to move the disks on that controller, but it seems that the debian standard kernel doesn't have support for 'boot offboard chipsets first' compiled in (that would allow me to append ide=reverse at bootup); which leads me to compiling my own kernel; but I can't because of the binutils (more exactly because of the kernel). what options do I have? I will happily try 2.4.17-rc2 if it works... any useful suggestions appreciated.
dragos
