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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:00:56
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b1001190559u276531c6g180064fb9f6afad0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIOS says 2GB, MemTest86 says 2GB, top says 900MB by Stroller
1 On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Stroller
2 <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 >
4 > On 19 Jan 2010, at 04:30, Mark Knecht wrote:
5 >>
6 >> ... Currently the disks are showing up as
7 >> /dev/hda and I thought with newer kernels they were supposed to be
8 >> /dev/sda. With my newest 2.6.32-gentoo-r1 it seems to be trying to be
9 >> /sda, but with 2.6.32-gentoo it's coming up /hda. Bottom line question
10 >> - can I dual list /dev/hda7 and /dev/sda7 in my fstab file so that
11 >> which ever one I boot at least it finds something?
12 >
13 > Set labels on the filesystems. See Walt's post in the thread "sata disk
14 > assignment mismatch..." (16 January 2010 17:23:24 GMT).
15 >
16 > Stroller.
17
18 Yes - I ran across that idea in the Ubuntu forums last night.
19 (Actually Google pointed me to the Ubuntu forums. Disappointing it
20 didn't point me to Gentoo but I guess we're a much smaller crowd these
21 days.)
22
23 I'll give that a try later today.
24
25 cheers,
26 Mark