Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 09:55:16AM -0700, Brad Brock wrote: > Have you tried using UUID? I have similar problem sometime ago, and UUID > solved mine. > Every file system can have an UUID, normally it's generated when your > filesystem created. Try blkid to view your filesystem's UUID. I've tried

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-28 Thread Brad Brock
Have you tried using UUID? I have similar problem sometime ago, and UUID solved mine. Every file system can have an UUID, normally it's generated when your filesystem created. Try blkid to view your filesystem's UUID. I've tried using UUID in my grub and it runs well. You can use UUID in your fs

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:44:44AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > Fair enough. just a thought. BTW, it's darn hard to find your > > > responses wit

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-08 Thread steef
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Butch Kemper wrote: At 11:17 AM 4/6/2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Butch Kemper wrote: hugo wrote but you are still stuck with the GRUB root command, which does not accept a label. So I changed grub (0.97-29) to accept this: find/ST380011A.03 root

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Butch Kemper wrote: At 11:17 AM 4/6/2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Butch Kemper wrote: Back in February, I asked a question about problems I was having with the hard disks sequence flip-flopping when I would boot: disk #1 would be hda and disk #2 would be hdc; or disk #1

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Butch Kemper wrote: At 11:17 AM 4/6/2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Butch Kemper wrote: Back in February, I asked a question about problems I was having with the hard disks sequence flip-flopping when I would boot: disk #1 would be hda and disk #2 would be hdc; or disk #1 would be hde and disk #

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:20:53PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:50:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:37:14PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:50:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:37:14PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > > Still doesn't help on my white-on-black VT520. A bit of white-space > > > (we

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-06 Thread Butch Kemper
At 11:17 AM 4/6/2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Butch Kemper wrote: Back in February, I asked a question about problems I was having with the hard disks sequence flip-flopping when I would boot: disk #1 would be hda and disk #2 would be hdc; or disk #1 would be hde and disk #2 would be hda. I rec

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:37:14PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Still doesn't help on my white-on-black VT520. A bit of white-space > > (well, actually black-space) does help. > > you can use "mono" inplace of colo

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:44:44AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > Fair enough. just a thought. BTW, it's darn hard to find your > > > responses wit

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:44:44AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:28:16AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:44:44AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Fair enough. just a thought. BTW, it's darn hard to find your > > responses with no whitespace around them... > > Someting like: > > color quoted blue

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Butch Kemper wrote: Back in February, I asked a question about problems I was having with the hard disks sequence flip-flopping when I would boot: disk #1 would be hda and disk #2 would be hdc; or disk #1 would be hde and disk #2 would be hda. I receive answers about using labels with the par

Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:28:16AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:14:17PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote: > > [snip]> > > > > >

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:28:16AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:14:17PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote: > [snip]> > > > > > > # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 becomes > > > # kopt=root=LAB

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:14:17PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote: [snip]> > > > > # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 becomes > > # kopt=root=LABEL=/ > > I think Alex is right, that you should rebuild the initrd. But

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:14:17PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote: > Back in February, I asked a question about problems I was having with > the hard disks sequence flip-flopping when I would boot: disk #1 would be > hda and disk #2 would be hdc; or disk #1 would be hde and disk #2 would > be hda. >

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-05 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 05:23:45 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > did you do an update-initramfs to build a new initrd ? If you *must* reply to a post with only a single line of new text please have the decency to trim the message, rather than quoting it in its entirety. Steve -- http://www.steve.

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:14:17PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote: > Back in February, I asked a question about problems I was having with > the hard disks sequence flip-flopping when I would boot: disk #1 would be > hda and disk #2 would be hdc; or disk #1 would be hde and disk #2 would > be hda. >

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes

2008-02-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:58:29PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Here we go again. Someone asked this a couple of days ago. I've added some content to http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#using-devswitch Please have a look at it and correct/complete if necessary. Regards, Andrei --

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes

2008-02-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:51:22PM -0600, Butch Kemper wrote: > I have built a new system using: > > Etch with kernel 2.6.18-6-k7 > > Tyan Thunder h1000E Motherboard > > 2 Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processors > > Two hard drives: #1 on the builtin IDE - hda >