Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Dec 2005 08:32:26 -0500 (EST) | From | Thomas Molina <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: cannot boot 2.6.15-rc6 on Opteron machine |
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> >there is no such procedure, because the disk labels are... ON THE DISK. > >And the initrd reads them from all the disks at boot time to find the > >one needed. This means that if your disk changes name (for example > >because of a scsi bus order change or because of a different order you > >load the device drivers... or even if you forget to compile the sata > >drivers and suddenly the disk goes from /dev/sda to /dev/hda).... things > >just remain working > >
Interesting. I've been compiling my own kernels for quite some time and have never had a boot device end up anywhere except where I thought it should. This includes during the 2.5 craziness when parts of ide support was rewritten at least twice.
> > > Compile the kernel with support for your hardware built in, i'm assuming you > eighter build the controller as a module or didn't built it at all
Certainly this is the best advice. Not only support for the hardware, but also ext3 journalling as well as ext2 support. I think it may be possible to end up with ext2 builtin but ext3 journalling as modular. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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