Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759522AbZA2Xo2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:44:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753279AbZA2XoV (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:44:21 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47428 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752950AbZA2XoU (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:44:20 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Switching from (deprecated) IDE driver -> SATA (PATA support) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:44:09 -0500 Message-ID: <49823F49.4000407@tmr.com> References: <20090125110742.4ba54c0b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <497CD5F3.8030901@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-68-236-142-151.alb.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081217 Fedora/1.1.14-1.fc9 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 In-Reply-To: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2513 Lines: 70 Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Justin Piszcz wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Alan Cox wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Easiest is to use labels. Old ide will keep hda,b,c,d constant >>>>>> providing you have interfaces using the legacy IDE port mappings >>>>>> (0x1f0 >>>>>> and 0x170). Libata doesn't do that as pretty much every >>>>>> distribution had >>>>>> already switched to volume labels, and the user space can do the >>>>>> job far >>>>>> better than the kernel - especially as the newer devices with modern >>>>>> interfaces don't have the old BIOS/DOS legacy ideas any more. >>>>>> >>>>>> Mount by label also means you can flip back and forth between the >>>>>> different drivers and kernel revisions. >>>>>> >>>>>> Alan >>>>>> >>>> It comes with one :) >>>> # xfs_admin -u /dev/sdd2 >>>> UUID = 77ae4251-631f-4656-a365-c5723f5c5da8 >>>> >>>> Will try to use this to boot; however, I'd prefer the labels over >>>> the UUID, wish there was an easy way to set it. >>>> >>>> Justin. >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> xfs mailing list >>>> xfs@oss.sgi.com >>>> http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs >>>> >>> >>> One final question, without udev, how does one determine the UUID of >>> a non-XFS >>> partition, e.g., swap? >>> >> One uses blkid. Which suggests that you can solve your name problem by >> not using names and switching to UUID. > > This will fix the /etc/fstab issue but not LILO/boot one, per the > earlier poster, need an initrd/etc for that. > Good point, I have not used LILO since about Slackware 8.1, or any system w/o initrd in ages. I suppose there is a benefit to running without initrd, but I confess that I can't remember what it is. So I don't immediately consider the issues and limitations if you run without initrd. Well I answered how to GET the UUID, he didn't ask me how to USE it. And I certainly didn't think of it, even though the info was there. :-( -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/