Tim Cutts wrote:
I've been a Debian Developer for more than 10 years, but I bought that
book last year and it's still teaching me useful stuff. Several of us
in my group have bought it now, and we all swear by it. Pretty much
everything it says about Debian applies to Ubuntu as well.
This is definitely the wrong list to ask this question - and therefore,
I'm only phishing for pointers.
Three months ago I bought a machine (from a vendor I won't name, because
it was HP), that featured a 320 Gbyte IDE drive and a (removable, but
kept installed in my case) 320 Gbyte SCSI device).
The Stable install went fine - IDE drive got /dev/hda1 (swap) and
/dev/hda2 (/ - the rest of the device). SCSI drive got /dev/sda1
(/scratch - I need lots of it).
So far, so good. I downloaded the e1000 ethernet driver, because it
wasn't included in stable's 2.6.18-5 kernel. Compiled, modprobed,
dhclient'ed to my ISP's modem, all OK.
Changed /etc/apt/sources.list to exclude the DVD and include
deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian testing main contrib
and apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade'd away.
Unfortunately, the resulting system (unlike the original from the DVD)
won't boot - it can't find the boot device. It does (helpfully) display
the message that the root device might be renamed (/dev/sda2), but
booting with that root device doesn't bring up the system.
Something rather fundamental must have changed (probably in udev)
between "stable" and the recent "testing" system - but what ?
--
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