From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19 Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 08:12:28 -0400 Message-ID: <44FC182C.7090008@garzik.org> References: <44FC0779.9030405@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:20354 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750873AbWIDMMb (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Sep 2006 08:12:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Grant Coady Cc: "linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Grant Coady wrote: > 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? That's actually pretty darn easy, with a modern distro. Use filesystem labels, and LABEL= in your /etc/fstab. The LABEL= feature allowed me to bounce between drivers/ide and libata a dozen times a day, when I was doing the initial libata development. Jeff -- VGER BF report: H 3.84798e-12