James Wilkinson wrote: > For example, the current development tree contains a kernel which > handles parallel IDE drives the same way as serial ATA (SATA) is > handled. This means that what was /dev/hda is now /dev/sda (or sdb, or > whatever). This will break a number of setups, and mean that some people > have to change their configuration files (usually the files they changed > themselves). But it does promise better support in the future. Dave > Jones, the maintainer, says he won't release this version for FC6 (or > FC5), because it would break too many existing setups. But for FC7, > people will expect to have to reconfigure a few things, and there may be > support in the FC installer for "obvious" settings to be transferred to > the new naming. Well, you could always use the old kernel if the new one doesn't work. (Quite a lot of distribution kernels don't work for me anyway, on one or other of my machines.) I think the OP asked quite a pertinent question, and I don't think anyone has given a very cogent answer. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
