Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:14:56 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: Catch 22 |
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:01:37 -0600 John Lash <jkl@sarvega.com> wrote:
| On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:40:03 +0000 | Michael Lothian <s0095670@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote: | | > Just thaought I'd let you know about my experiences with Mandrake using | > the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels on my new hardware which is primaraly a Asus | > A7V600 (KT600) Motherboard and Radeon 9600XT | > | > Under 2.4 my ATA hard drak is mounted under /dev/hda where as under 2.6 | > is /dev/hde so there is no wasy way to switch between them with lilo and | > /etc/fstab needing to be changed | > | | At least in this case, you should be able to use volume labels for the | filesystems instead of the actual device names. Check out tune2fs -L. You then | reference the volume label in your fstab. | | With lilo, you can specify that boot disk and root disk on the command line. | Also you can point lilo to a different config file using lilo -C. Not seamless | but should allow you to bounce back and forth w/o editing files....
Does anyone know the reason for this (ATA ident/naming change)?
I do *not* see this and I'm also using Mandrake (v9.0, not later).
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