Re: Catch 22

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

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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~Randy
MOTD:  Always include version info.