Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:31:10 +0100 | From | Andre Tomt <> | Subject | Re: independence from ide master/slave |
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Pascal Maillard wrote: > Hi list, > > recently, I had changed my IDE disk from primary master to slave. I've got > SUSE, Debian and Windows XP installed on it. I was ashamed to see that > Windows loaded immediately, but the Linuxes didn't, because all of the > filesystems were thought to be on /dev/hda. So I asked myself if there should > not be device files that point to the _current_ hard disk (which should be > defined at startup by the kernel) and its partitions. This way, it wouldn't > matter which IDE channel a disk is connected to. What do you mean about this?
The kernel already supports identification of partitions through user defined labels or UUIDs. If I remember correctly, RedHat uses/used them per default.
With other distributions, some tweaking may be needed for the root fs.
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