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Steve Dommett wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 03 October 2007, James Colby wrote: |
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>> The reason for that is because the suspend kernel is |
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>> configuring my hard disk as /dev/hda and my standard kernel is configuring |
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>> it as /dev/sda. Does anyone know how I can get the suspend kernel to |
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>> assign my hard disk as /dev/sda? |
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> I think eventually you would have run into this problem even if you hadn't |
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> switched to using suspend2-sources. Recent changes in the kernel (at 2.6.21 |
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> unless my memory fails me) removed the need for most SATA drivers to use the |
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> SCSI layer of the kernel. The result being that many hard drives that were |
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> previously addressed as /dev/sda will now be available at /dev/hda. |
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> You'll need to change at least /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab to reflect |
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> this . Yes, it's a pest because it complicates booting into older kernels. |
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> You may not know that GRUB supports editing the boot parameters with the 'E' |
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> key, which goes a long way towards easing the pains. |
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I think its preferable to get the SATA driver to handle the device if |
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you can. I know on my machine disk performance dropped quite a bit when |
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it was probed as hda by the ATA driver. |
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