Re: Upgrading to Lenny & 2.6.26: serverworks OSB4 IDE problem
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:13:52 +0100, Sven Joachim (svenjoac@gmx.de) wrote:
> On 2009-02-16 10:05 +0100, Bob Cox wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:40:51 +0000, Tim Day (timday@bottlenose.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 08:57 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> >> > Alternatively, you can try the UUID=<filesystem-uuid> for mounting the
> >> > drive.
> >>
> >> Is there any reason to think the UUID version will work any better than
> >> labels ? If I have the labels method working fine with 2.6.18, why
> >> would they not work with 2.6.26 ?
>
> I prefer labels as well, they are more readable than UUIDs.
I agree. It's much easier to keep track of things.
bob@trantor:~# blkid
[snip]
/dev/hda3: UUID="4502924a-6390-4733-8ab4-b6f39c9c4bf0" TYPE="ext3" LABEL="root"
/dev/hda5: TYPE="swap" LABEL="swap" UUID="4ea26ed2-6564-4d9d-a76d-3c38d65cc59a"
/dev/hda6: UUID="525361d1-e642-4b09-953e-3822d4c86c22" TYPE="ext3" LABEL="usr" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
/dev/hda7: UUID="5d2be57d-b446-499c-b89f-e2a7d91f1e24" TYPE="ext3" LABEL="home" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
bob@trantor:~$ grep LABEL /boot/grub/menu.lst
# kopt=root=LABEL=root ro vga=791
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=LABEL=root ro vga=791
> >> > Another option is to specify the names as sda, sdb, etc.
> >>
> >> Currently (2.6.18) I have a hda (the IDE drive) and an sda and sdb for
> >> the 2 SATA drives. Is there any way to predict where the hda drive will
> >> move to under 2.6.26 ? (ie should it appear as sda and the two existing
> >> sd* drives will move up to sdb & sdc, or will hda move to sdc ?)
>
> I think this is not predictable, but I'm not an expert in this area.
>
> > Your IDE drive should still be hda (or at least hdn rather than sdn)
> > with 2.6.26. At least, that is what I see here with IDE drives in two
> > separate lenny boxen, one of which was an upgrade from etch and one a
> > clean lenny install several months ago.
>
> Probably the reason is that there is no PATA driver for your
> controllers. AFAIK these are preferred over the old IDE drivers now.
Ah, thanks for that Sven. My hardware is quite old ;-)
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