Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:01:37 -0600
From: John Lash <jkl@sarvega.com>
To: Michael Lothian <s0095670@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Catch 22
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:40:03 +0000
Michael Lothian <s0095670@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> Just thaought I'd let you know about my experiences with Mandrake using
> the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels on my new hardware which is primaraly a Asus
> A7V600 (KT600) Motherboard and Radeon 9600XT
> 
> Under 2.4 my ATA hard drak is mounted under /dev/hda where as under 2.6
> is /dev/hde so there is no wasy way to switch between them with lilo and
> /etc/fstab needing to be changed
> 

At least in this case, you should be able to use volume labels for the
filesystems instead of the actual device names. Check out tune2fs -L. You then
reference the volume label in your fstab.

With lilo, you can specify that boot disk and root disk on the command line.
Also you can point lilo to a different config file using lilo -C. Not seamless
but should allow you to bounce back and forth w/o editing files....

Sorry, I'm not familiar with the rest.....

--john
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