but i'll have to change it every time i add or remove a hard disk
which can be pretty frequent.
if the total number of drives in the system is not the same from boot
to boot, i have to tweak fstab.
is it possible for a future update of OpenBSD to tweak fstab to take
references to the boot drive? that should help a lot in such cases. I
could spout a lot of ideas, like having a unique identifier
(combination of timestamp and netcard/cpu id?) in the boot block for
reference in fstab, but i'm no expert.
Oh well i'll resign to your suggestions and follow a strict workflow:
no superfluous drives at boot and add them just before backup should
do fine, unless anybody has a better idea. I'd hate keeping back-up
drives in the machine for no apparent reason.
At least i don't have to spend more time searching for info as this
seems to be a dead end.
thanks for the feedback all round
regards
On Sep 11, 2008, at 13:53, Marco Peereboom wrote:
Right, assuming you don't have to change your boot device in BIOS all
you have to do is do it in fstab.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:04:19PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:40:47AM +0200, Joseph A Borg wrote:
I just added a 4 port promise sata card and cannot figure a way of
forcing the sata ports on the motherboard to take precedence over
the
sata pci card.
why? It's just a number.
Any pointers to useful info would be greatly appreciated. I guess
i'll
have to mess with the BIOS and IRQs but these are, till now out of
my
radar.
regards
Better not mess at all. Fix your fstab and all's well.
-Otto
