Comment 83 for bug 228302

Andy,

I noticed that you re-modularized the PATA/SATA drivers in kernel 2.6.32-17.26. Unfortunately, you forgot to re-modularize the ata_generic module as well. I tried blacklisting the pata_ali driver and booting with "all_generic_ide", but no hard drives or ATAPI drives were detected, and I was booted to the initramfs shell. I suspect that the boot option isn't parsed because the ata_generic module is still built-in to the kernel.

... or perhaps the option has been renamed; I'll do some experimenting and try to find out.