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On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:11:03PM +0000, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: |
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> I had the same problem and despite my existing drive being connected to what |
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> was labelled on the motherboard as SATA1 it in fact was not! Trial and error |
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> gave me the correct one... It would be useful if the nodes were more fixed |
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> but most systems do not change after initial set up and this situation can be |
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> fixed quite easily. |
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It's worth noting that the "correct" way to do this is now with fs |
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labels or UUIDs. Personally, I use LVM for everything but |
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boot/root/swap, and that uses UUIDs internally, so I don't have much |
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issue (it would be sweet if Gentoo could easily boot from LVM, but that |
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requires an initrd). |
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Anyway, I'm not too sure how to indicate a UUID to the kernel for its |
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root fs. There's a RedHat kernel patch that allows you to specify e.g., |
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'root=LABEL=myroot' on the kernel cmdline, but I'm not sure if that's |
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available in the stock Gentoo kernel, or if it supports UUIDs. |
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You can use 'LABEL=foo' or UUID='fooo-ooo-ooo..' in /etc/fstab, though. |
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Dustin |
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