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From: "Eric D. Mudama" <edmudama@bounceswoosh.org>
To: "Robert M. Stockmann" <stock@stokkie.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA disk device naming ?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:46:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040713064645.GA1660@bounceswoosh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407130415430.15806-100000@hubble.stokkie.net>

On Tue, Jul 13 at  4:25, Robert M. Stockmann wrote:
>Is there in such cases a smart workaround available, maybe as an extra
>GRUB/LILO boot option ? And why was the device naming changed in 
>such a fatal way, effectively going from IDE to SCSI device names.

Google on the "root=LABEL=/" syntax supported by both LILO and grub (I
think), should point you in the proper direction.  Then it won't
matter where/how you mount your drives, they'll still boot and mount
into the proper places in the filesystem.

--eric


-- 
Eric D. Mudama
edmudama@mail.bounceswoosh.org


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-13  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-13  2:25 Robert M. Stockmann
2004-07-13  3:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-14 11:20   ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-07-15 17:37     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-15 18:07       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-13  6:46 ` Eric D. Mudama [this message]
2004-07-13 13:24   ` Ian Soboroff
2004-07-13 16:23   ` Ricky Beam
2004-07-13 16:49     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-13 17:29       ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-07-13 22:35       ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-14  9:48         ` P
2004-07-15  2:44         ` Joel Becker
2004-07-25 19:05           ` Greg KH
2004-07-13 17:15     ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-07-13 16:58       ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-07-14  0:09 DaMouse

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