From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263204AbUGMGqH (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:46:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263429AbUGMGqH (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:46:07 -0400 Received: from 80-169-17-66.mesanetworks.net ([66.17.169.80]:37806 "EHLO mail.bounceswoosh.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263204AbUGMGqF (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:46:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:46:45 -0600 From: "Eric D. Mudama" To: "Robert M. Stockmann" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA disk device naming ? Message-ID: <20040713064645.GA1660@bounceswoosh.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Robert M. Stockmann" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040523i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 13 at 4:25, Robert M. Stockmann wrote: >Is there in such cases a smart workaround available, maybe as an extra >GRUB/LILO boot option ? And why was the device naming changed in >such a fatal way, effectively going from IDE to SCSI device names. Google on the "root=LABEL=/" syntax supported by both LILO and grub (I think), should point you in the proper direction. Then it won't matter where/how you mount your drives, they'll still boot and mount into the proper places in the filesystem. --eric -- Eric D. Mudama edmudama@mail.bounceswoosh.org