On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:31:29AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote (1.00): > > drives you've already had, all of your drive letters would move up by > > one, 'causing no end of trouble. > > a short edit of /etc/fstab > a possible recreation of a symlink in /dev, or two, or three > > what else?
A complete inability to boot because the root partition is now elsewhere. Adding new hardware shouldn't normally require a rescue disk, and shouldn't radically change the current working system. My point is, it's a stupid design decision that (thankfully) is being corrected, but MS isn't the only group of people guilty of this kind of thing. M
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