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On Wednesday 19 October 2005 22:00, Ian Brandt wrote: |
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> Is there some reason the symbolic links wouldn't have worked? |
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None that I'm aware of. |
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> My fear is if I change my root in fstab to /dev/sda3 my 2.4 kernel |
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> won't come back up, and at $125/hr I'm really trying to avoid getting |
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> the NOC involved. |
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Leave both sets of entries, just comment out the full scsi path ones. Make |
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sure a monkey could put it back right. |
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> Is there any way to determine/test whether the configuration is going |
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> to work under devfs and/or udev without actually rebooting? After |
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> editing /etc/fstab to /dev/sdaX I tried: |
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Kinda, yes. |
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Add /dev/sdXY entries, but under someother directory, /mnt/gentoo for example. |
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i.e. |
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/dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo auto noatime 0 1 |
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/dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot auto ro,noatime 0 0 |
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etc, etc |
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The mount -a, and see what happens. |
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> But is that a true test of whether it is going to work on reboot? |
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It's as good as your going to get, without rebooting :) |
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> I'll look into that, but same question applies, is it possible to |
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> verify my changes before I reboot? |
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Just the mnt/gentoo thing. |
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Mike Williams |
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