On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 08:28:02PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >(2) This one's for curiosity only, because I will be replacing my Mandrake > >soon (which I currently boot from floppy only). When I installed > >Mandrake, it used the device name /dev/hde for my hard disk. I thought, > >interesting. My hard disk must be on the *third* IDE chain. I wonder why. > >But then sometime later, I installed Debian on another partition, and *it* > >considered the same drive to be /dev/hda. This made it obscure just how to > >write a lilo that whould use both device names properly. Now I know > >there's > >probably a way to do this anyway. But my question is -- why would > >different > >Linuxes (linuces? Linuses) want to use different devide names for the same > >hard disk? > > > >Has this weird naming happened to anyone else? > > > > > The only time I've seen that is when I had a hotrod card plugged in and > really had all those devices. My experience was with RHL and Debian. >
Mandrake actually inserted a line in its lilo.conf telling it to rename the hard disk device! -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
