On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 09:00 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 06:19 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > > > >> I said that a bug report would be sent regarding the new F7 moving > >> partition designators. This is it: > >> > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=352181 > >> > > > > That has to be one of the strangest worded entries I've ever come across > > from someone who speaks English. It's incoherent to the extreme, both > > in the weird descriptions as well as the wrong terminology. > > > > /dev/sda is a device name not a partition name. Even /dev/sda1 isn't a > > partition name, it's a device name referring to a partition. > > > > You don't boot a hard drive. You select a drive/partition to boot from. > > > > Just changing how you "use" a drive changes the designation? By that > > description, using my hard drive more than I did yesterday could be > > construed as the problem... Try something more understandable, like: > > Changing the drive you boot from alters the device names for other > > drives. Adding additional drives can change the device names for other, > > even fixed, drives to change. To be logical, and coherent, it really > > shouldn't have that effect. > > > > I don't know where to begin with "the Linux is a /dev/sda". > > > > You should really cancel that report, and start again with a coherent > > bug report, and pick a more likely cause behind the problem. I'd guess > > udev would be a better item to first bugzilla it against. > > > > > I am sorry you don't like my bug report. But I have to say what you > complain about makes no sense either. Now I expect whom ever is assigned > that bug will have questions. Then I will answer them. ---- as it sits, don't expect any action on your bug report, is does suck. if you want them to investigate, you must add to the bug report (answering on this list won't do): - motherboard description - Manufacturer - Model # - Processor - RAM - hard drive physical connection description for each hard drive including: - where connected - IDE - primary master - IDE - primary slave - IDE - secondary master - IDE - secondary slave - SATA - port # - OS installed & kernel version on each hard drive - i.e. F7 x86_64 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 - grub.conf from each boot drive - out from booting of each different system... - fdisk -l /dev/sda - fdisl -l /dev/sdb etc. If you don't give them enough information to process, they aren't gonna bother - especially when they are just a few days away from new release. I am suggesting this so you don't waste your time making bug reports without adequate information. Craig
