Thomas Chef wrote:
Aha I understand.
But what if my cd installation names my disk hda,
but when I download the gentoo kernel source and build it it will use
sda. So in my lilo.conf I must use hda, and when the new kernel boots it
looks for hda (because of my lilo.conf), but in that case it should be
sda instead ?
I guess when you boot the new kernel, it will error looking for the root
block device, and ask you what it should do.
You can then tell it that it should be looking for sda, not hda. Then
once the system is booted, you can update the bootloader config.
That should let you migrate and you shouldn't have to do it again unless
you go back to the old hda names.
HTH
Matt
