On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 19:37 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Trever L. Adams wrote: > > I am half way around the world from a not-for-profit organizations > > server which I help maintain. For too many reasons to list, we could not > > install from media and had to do an upgrade via yum. Everything is > > working fine, except, the system was using Lilo and now uses Grub. > > Additionally, the drive renaming of everything (ATA and SCSI) to sd$ > > leaves us without being able to reboot. > > > > The drive setup follows (FC2): > > /dev/hda3 / > > /dev/hda1 /boot > > /dev/hdc1 /extra > > /dev/sdb1 /AAA > > /dev/sda1 /BBB > > > > It appears that ATA is initialized before the SCSI on this system > > (2.6.12). Therefore, I think the mapping would be: > > > > hda - > sda > > hdb (cdrom?) - > sdb > > hdc -> sdc > > sda -> sdd > > sdb -> sde > > > > Is this accurate? Is there a way to use labels so I can be certain grub > > and fstab are correct? > > > > > > Thank you for any help. > > > > Trever Adams > > > > P.S. Am I even having to do this, does 2.6.23 (in F7) have this > > remapping requirement? It has been a while since I used it locally. > > > > > Grub uses the BIOS mapping, so the BIOS boot drive will be hd0 for > Grub. As far as the drive mapping, the CD-ROM will not have show up > as a SCSI hard drive. It will show up as a SCSI CD-ROM drive. (scd0) > > You can use partition labels in /etc/fstab, and in the kernel > command lines in grub.conf, but Grub itself does not understand them. > > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 ---- I would also mention that you don't have to list CD-ROM drives in /etc/fstab because they would likely automatically mount discs in user space but on a remote headless system, user space is likely not useful. Fedora hasn't set up CD/DVD drives in /etc/fstab by default for several versions now. As long as you get /dev/sda1 (/boot) and /dev/sda3 (/) working on reboot, the rest is fixable after booting. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
