From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Thomas Molina <tmolina@cablespeed.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?)
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:56:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063720608.10036.26.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309152229390.5337-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Maw, 2003-09-16 at 03:38, Thomas Molina wrote:
> It seems to me that if you are in the position of tinkering, and
> installing an OS you ought to have an understanding of root and boot
> disks, and what is in your system. If you don't understand things well
> enough to specify the proper boot disk and root disk you shouldn't be
> tinkering and it won't matter how each is specified.
Your root disk can change for all sorts of non Linux reasons ranging
from windows config changes to hotplug devices. For example if your root
is /dev/sdc and /dev/sdb fails you'll want LABEL=.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-16 13:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-13 20:16 James Bottomley
2003-09-13 21:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 11:15 ` Justin Cormack
2003-09-14 15:02 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-14 16:55 ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-09-14 17:01 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-14 17:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 18:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-16 2:38 ` Thomas Molina
2003-09-16 13:56 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-09-14 17:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-14 16:12 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-14 17:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 2:11 ` Matt Domsch
2003-09-14 22:26 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 6:05 ` Matt Domsch
2003-09-15 22:16 ` Matt Domsch
2003-09-15 3:23 ` Andre Hedrick
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-13 11:01 DMA for ide-scsi? Mikael Pettersson
2003-09-13 18:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-13 18:49 ` 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?) Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 19:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-13 19:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-15 7:34 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-16 19:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-16 19:55 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-20 18:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-20 22:16 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-20 22:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-20 22:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-21 9:23 ` Jens Axboe
2003-09-13 19:24 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-09-13 19:57 ` Jeff Garzik
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