rawhide report: 20061219 changes
Mike Chambers
mike at miketc.com
Tue Dec 19 22:14:17 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 16:12 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 22:48 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 15:41 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 20:08 +0100, dragoran wrote:
> > >
> > > > are you using mount by label or are you using hardcoded disk/partition
> > > > names?
> > > > if yes you have to change form hdX to sdX because IDE is now handled by
> > > > libata.
> > >
> > > Ok, so with the new kernels lately, we have to change our
> > > fstab/mtab/grub (which exactly and/or where else) from hdx to sdx?
> >
> > fstab is done per label normally so no change needed
> > mtab is a dynamic one so don't change it.
> > grub.. I don't know.
>
> Hrm, well on my system, just two IDE's, no LVM or anything, the newer
> kernels (last 2-3 anyway) panic with "can't mount /dev/root" or
> something to that affect, and was wondering if that was same problem or
> different one.
Here is my grub, which does have some of the hdx in various places...
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb1
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=13
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2881.fc7)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2881.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.19-1.2881.fc7.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.img
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY
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