On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 09:38:18PM +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > on my (older) system, I discovered a weired behaviour: although I am using > IDE-harddrives, they are seen as /dev/sdX (IDE-drives should be discovered as > /dev/hdX). Is this a kernel-decision? In /etc/fstab are only entries with > "/dev/hdX". Because of this, it is impossible to get grub-pc running (kernel- > panic). Strange: The system is runnning perfectly with grub-legacy and those > wrong devices. Booting with a live-cd, all harddrives are recognized as > /dev/hdX.
This is due to using the libata PATA drivers instead of the old IDE ones. libata drives all appear with the SCSI naming, regardless of which bus they are connected to. Since the libata drivers are now the default in a Debian kernel, all your drives should appear as sd*. I believe new kernel packages should help you migrate to a UUID-based naming method so that how exactly your disks are labelled becomes irrelevant. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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