On 23Oct2007 18:26, Adam Hough <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 16:50 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: | > Sorry I can't give you facts. I am just thinking where Fedora is | > going. I have today answered myself why /dev/sda changes while /dev/hda | > is constant. I don't like it by the way. It makes writing a grub.conf | > very difficult. Hoo, yes. | > I need to learn more about all this. Or go back to FC6. If you have the resources, keep a test system and a live system. Upgrade your live system only after you've got the test system happy, and upgrade less frequently. It's more work, but less disruptive. | The reason that all the /dev/hdX devices turned into /dev/sdX devices is | because the underlying device drivers have changed. And a lousy lousy reason it is. | This change allows | for a more structured approach to write hard drive controller device | drivers and can share some common code. The old IDE/ATA drivers were | reimplemented under the libata code which was originally written for | SATA controller devices. Could have changed the drivers and kept the device names, you know... But they didn't, and it caused a lot of people pain. | If you use labels, partition uuids, or logical volumes then you can not | care about which /dev/sdX is which. Yes and no. The kernel root= parameter does require a device name and not a label if you're using a vanilla kernel. RedHat and Fedora have been patched to support root=LABEL=foo, but not the mainline kernel AFAIR. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes are gonna be playing at ten, you're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar, where can you go from there? Where? Nowhere, exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Eleven. Exactly. One louder. - Nigel Tufnel, _This Is Spinal Tap_
