From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19 Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:27:09 +0100 Message-ID: <1157376429.30801.57.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <44FC0779.9030405@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:37854 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964901AbWIDNFB (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 09:05:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Grant Coady Cc: Jeff Garzik , "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Ar Llu, 2006-09-04 am 22:02 +1000, ysgrifennodd Grant Coady: > I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab > depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX. Parallel '/' partitions? Mount by label on modern distributions. You can also generally boot far enough to just test by booting a libata kernel with root=/dev/sdawhatever init=/bin/sh Thats enough to get a test shell and poke around and check the boot messages