On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:13:52 +0100, Sven Joachim (svenj...@gmx.de) wrote:
> 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. I agree. It's much easier to keep track of things. b...@trantor:~# blkid [snip] /dev/hda3: UUID="4502924a-6390-4733-8ab4-b6f39c9c4bf0" TYPE="ext3" LABEL="root" /dev/hda5: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap" UUID="4ea26ed2-6564-4d9d-a76d-3c38d65cc59a" /dev/hda6: UUID="525361d1-e642-4b09-953e-3822d4c86c22" TYPE="ext3" LABEL="usr" SEC_TYPE="ext2" /dev/hda7: UUID="5d2be57d-b446-499c-b89f-e2a7d91f1e24" TYPE="ext3" LABEL="home" SEC_TYPE="ext2" b...@trantor:~$ grep LABEL /boot/grub/menu.lst # kopt=root=LABEL=root ro vga=791 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=LABEL=root ro vga=791 > >> > 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. Ah, thanks for that Sven. My hardware is quite old ;-) -- Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK. Please reply to the list only. Do NOT send copies directly to me. Debian on the NSLU2: http://bobcox.com/slug/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
