On 2009-02-16 10:05 +0100, Bob Cox wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:40:51 +0000, Tim Day > (tim...@bottlenose.demon.co.uk) wrote: > >> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:57 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: >> > Alternatively, you can try the UUID=<filesystem-uuid> for mounting the >> > drive. >> >> Is there any reason to think the UUID version will work any better than >> labels ? If I have the labels method working fine with 2.6.18, why >> would they not work with 2.6.26 ?
I prefer labels as well, they are more readable than UUIDs. >> > Another option is to specify the names as sda, sdb, etc. >> >> Currently (2.6.18) I have a hda (the IDE drive) and an sda and sdb for >> the 2 SATA drives. Is there any way to predict where the hda drive will >> move to under 2.6.26 ? (ie should it appear as sda and the two existing >> sd* drives will move up to sdb & sdc, or will hda move to sdc ?) I think this is not predictable, but I'm not an expert in this area. > Your IDE drive should still be hda (or at least hdn rather than sdn) > with 2.6.26. At least, that is what I see here with IDE drives in two > separate lenny boxen, one of which was an upgrade from etch and one a > clean lenny install several months ago. Probably the reason is that there is no PATA driver for your controllers. AFAIK these are preferred over the old IDE drivers now. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
