On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:03:43AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:26:54PM -0700, cls@truffula.sj.ca.us wrote: > > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > > > I've revved four machines from Sarge to Etch now, > > following the release notes and letting it replace > > devfs with udev. All worked fine. > > > > The fifth machine was a mess. It's got two > > PATA drives, on the first PATA channel on a > > motherboard with two unused SATA sockets. > > There is also a disk controller with two > > PATA channels, unused, in a PCI slot. > > > If you're not using the extra disk controller, take it out > of the PCI slot. I had precisely this problem with a > Promise card whereby you could install onto the drives on > the motherboard controller but thereafter on reboot the > BIOS wouldn't see them because the PCI controller took priority. > one way to get consident device names for udev is to use one of the unique identifiers in menu.lst and fstab. this is in my menu.lst --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-14-386 root=UUID=be3621bb-9392-4f4a-83f6-e7f9fa05d430 ro quiet splash vga=791 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this is in my fstab --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUID=be3621bb-9392-4f4a-83f6-e7f9fa05d430 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the easiest way to get the UUID is to use live cd with udev and ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ -Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______|
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