On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 16:11 -0400, Mauriat Miranda wrote: > On 5/5/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My assumed scenario is that you move two disks with fedora > > already installed into the same machine for any number of > > reasons. I move disks around all the time so the situation > > is not at all unusual. But if you need help imagining why > > this would happen, assume that one of the computers breaks and > > you want to salvage the contents of the disk by adding it > > to your own PC. Or you just want to re-format and re-use the > > disk as an added filesystem. > > > > Yes, you can work around the problem with quite a lot of > > extra trouble, assuming you understand what the problem > > is in the first place. Now remind me why I want to have > > this extra trouble in the first place. Why should a machine > > refuse to boot just because you add an extra drive? > > I see now, 2 drives at the same time is key point. I agree with your > point, booting should be possible. Curious: why not just make the grub > configuration use device ID's instead of labels? > > -Mauriat > That is naother one of the suggestions of the author in the LJ article. -- ======================================================================= 1 1 was a race-horse, 2 2 was 1 2. When 1 1 1 1 race, 2 2 1 1 2. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
