> Hm, so, to summarize:
quoted text
>   - you needed this option many years ago to get a box to work properly
>   - you don't need this today
> 
> So, if the option went away, you would not be inconvenienced?

After having reanimated the old system and after comments of other
persons I would not be inconvenienced if the option went away.

The system indeed did not boot correctly without that option, because
the disks appeared in a wrong order.  On the other hand, I was able to
(re)install bootloaders (grub as well as lilo) and after that did not
need the option any more.  Unfortunately, after that I was not able to
reproduce the initial situation where the option was needed.

Dirk
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