From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 13:19:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 13:19:45 -0400 Received: from esteel10.client.dti.net ([209.73.14.10]:21421 "EHLO nynetops04.e-steel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 13:19:34 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer Newsgroups: e-steel.mailing-lists.linux.linux-kernel Subject: Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants Date: 16 May 2001 13:19:28 -0400 Organization: e-STEEL Netops news server Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200105161702.f4GH2Cu05908@habitrail.home.fools-errant.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shookay.e-steel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: nynetops04.e-steel.com 990029880 21126 192.168.3.43 (16 May 2001 16:18:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@nynetops04.e-steel.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 May 2001 16:18:00 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hacksaw@hacksaw.org (Hacksaw) writes: > >So what is your solution for preventing a boot failure after disks/partitions > >change ? > >volume labels/UUID ? > > As a sys-admin, let me add a vote for this. Having (one day) a prom monitor > program that looks at all the disks, and gives a menu of which one to boot > from would make life so nice. > > I very often had to move disks from one platform to another, and changing ID's > on the was hard or impossible in some cases, and required in others. Being > able to find the disk by a label is a thousand times better. Did you ever try grub?? This a gnu project, a boot-loader, with an embedded shell... You can read ext2fs and select, your kernel, your root disk, your params, etc... -- Mathieu CHOUQUET-STRINGER E-Mail : mchouque@e-steel.com Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. -- Alan J. Perlis