Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:14:56 -0500 (EST) | | From | Justin Piszcz <> | | Subject | Re: Switching from (deprecated) IDE driver -> SATA (PATA support) |
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Justin Piszcz wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Alan Cox wrote: >>>> >>>>> Easiest is to use labels. Old ide will keep hda,b,c,d constant >>>>> providing you have interfaces using the legacy IDE port mappings (0x1f0 >>>>> and 0x170). Libata doesn't do that as pretty much every distribution had >>>>> already switched to volume labels, and the user space can do the job far >>>>> better than the kernel - especially as the newer devices with modern >>>>> interfaces don't have the old BIOS/DOS legacy ideas any more. >>>>> >>>>> Mount by label also means you can flip back and forth between the >>>>> different drivers and kernel revisions. >>>>> >>>>> Alan >>>>> >>> It comes with one :) >>> # xfs_admin -u /dev/sdd2 >>> UUID = 77ae4251-631f-4656-a365-c5723f5c5da8 >>> >>> Will try to use this to boot; however, I'd prefer the labels over the >>> UUID, wish there was an easy way to set it. >>> >>> Justin. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> xfs mailing list >>> xfs@oss.sgi.com >>> http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs >>> >> >> One final question, without udev, how does one determine the UUID of a >> non-XFS >> partition, e.g., swap? >> > One uses blkid. Which suggests that you can solve your name problem by not > using names and switching to UUID.
This will fix the /etc/fstab issue but not LILO/boot one, per the earlier poster, need an initrd/etc for that.
Justin.
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