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Re: 2.34 Kernel Won't Boot



On 2010-08-22 12:39 +0200, David Baron wrote:

> Googling found the second alternative. The new sda names are for ALL hard 
> disks, SATA, IDE, SCSI, no matter.
>
> So there seems to be no way to keep the two variations, i.e. kernels using the 
> deprecated and the new PATA around. fstab must use the /dev/sda names and so 
> does the lilo (or grub) conf. Problem is that I cannot even try it.

You should use UUIDs or labels in /etc/fstab.  The linux-base package
might help you with the conversion.

> Not so pleasant. A kernel build option fixing this name business might be in 
> order.

Not really.  Device names are not guaranteed to be stable anyway.

Sven


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