From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758580AbXGEISe (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 04:18:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757343AbXGEIS1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 04:18:27 -0400 Received: from web52905.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.49.15]:44701 "HELO web52905.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752784AbXGEIS0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jul 2007 04:18:26 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=fwUb9htx2PBTrrcoHL07PHw4PY06e35d1BweLsy7qamowY1teqwS67rYdiPE9acZfc4JphkY2ASfhXkPiIeyHvBvB2729qN+282RtoACVHKULorRznyAd36z8YyMWj3K2yRKNmiLVYy9pFfBbFWcUEe3yuvxhNLTb5FM8gdwJhU=; X-YMail-OSG: NkvNXWIVM1lLMlX0CVDHa4..frvwT5D3DS3cfyyP6euvOAuu1sW_aF0t.R2_INHOoFHZGFcnJpYCI3sVMQVqtxKMcW5ukgx_CAMaY_dkBkO3AJzQe2WaeXummaemsl069asLTMsN9uSFcnY- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 09:18:25 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Rankin Subject: Re: Libata PATA status To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <438835.62282.qm@web52905.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Why not. I boot back and forth randomly between old and new IDE kernels > without problems. The root fs loaded is set in kernel or grub (or on most > distros nowdays by label scanning from initrd) so just works. Then mount > label or uuid based mounting does the rest. You say that, but I remember the "fun" I had upgrading from FC5 to F7 when the installer couldn't find my swap partition (as described in /etc/fstab). There were also LVM partitions to contend with, although vgcfgbackup/vgcfgrestore seemed to sort that out nicely enough. And since I have a PCI SATA card, the SATA drive suddenly became sdb when I switched to PATA too. So it was all very much a "one way" process, particularly when the userspace applications needed to be re-educated as well. I also know of at least one person (who shall remain nameless because he ought to know better) who is thinking about buying a brand new machine and installing F7 from scratch rather than go through the pain of upgrading IDE to PATA. Cheers, Chris ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html