Re: kernel 2.6.38 on Lenny
On 23/04/2011 16:18, Jim Brooks wrote:
I manually compiled the official/stock kernel 2.6.38.
But the (SATA) disk drives were remapped from sda/sdb to sde/sdf
Apparently USB and memory card ports became sd[abcd].
How the Linux kernel be told to map real disk drives to sda/sdb
Hi,
I think you don't have to care about the device assignement in /dev/sdxy.
Instead, you should (in your /etc/fstab file) use LABEL or UUID to point
to your partitions, e.g.:
UUID=ff7ffdb3-5abb-426c-bb14-42be0b80c24a /boot ext3
defaults 0 2
Visit the content of directories
/dev/disk/by-label
/dev/disk/by-uuid
to learn more about them.
Note that it may be still useful to know how to name your partitions
using /dev/sdxy notation (for fdisk, parted, etc.).
Nicolas
PS: I think Debian Squeeze upgrade/install is running a command that
automatically replaces the /device/names by UUID in fstab. I can't find
it right know, anyone can tell us its name?
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