From: Ian Soboroff <ian.soboroff@nist.gov>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SATA disk device naming ?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:24:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9cfhdsc82h5.fsf@rogue.ncsl.nist.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040713064645.GA1660@bounceswoosh.org> (Eric D. Mudama's message of "Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:46:45 -0600")
"Eric D. Mudama" <edmudama@bounceswoosh.org> writes:
> 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.
Did the patch for labeling the swap partition ever make it into the
kernel?
Also, if your filesystems are modular (e.g. XFS) then labels may not
help at boot time.
Ian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-13 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-13 2:25 SATA disk device naming ? Robert M. Stockmann
2004-07-13 3:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-14 11:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-07-15 17:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-15 18:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-13 6:46 ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-07-13 13:24 ` Ian Soboroff [this message]
2004-07-13 16:23 ` Ricky Beam
2004-07-13 16:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-13 17:29 ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-07-13 22:35 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-14 9:48 ` P
2004-07-15 2:44 ` Joel Becker
2004-07-25 19:05 ` Greg KH
2004-07-13 17:15 ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-07-13 16:58 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
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2004-07-14 0:09 DaMouse
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