Re: disk names at boot

2008-11-04 Thread Thomas H. George
Regarding disk names see my posting "Re: grub with sata drives - solution" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: disk names at boot

2008-11-04 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 06:49:54AM -0700, ghe wrote: > How did you find all this? upgrading from old udev-free distributions installed on old hardware, and reading documentation. One point not directly covered by the documentation: umount -l is useful when you remove udev (or when on package ins

Re: disk names at boot

2008-11-04 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > In my opinion, udev is pretty useless on a machine where hardware does > not change and manual loading from /etc/modules in the order you want > permits avoiding tampering with udev rules. Thanks, Sr. Confusionario. I agr

Re: disk names at boot

2008-11-03 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 03:11:38PM -0700, ghe wrote: > I have a hard time believing, though, that there wouldn't have been a > lot of very loud wailing if it's not possible for us old server admins > to set things up the way I want to... No warranties, but: * you can try a system where udev is NO

Re: disk names at boot

2008-11-03 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > I think you can use the device node symlinks in /dev/disk/by-label/ or > /dev/disk/by-uuid/ to avoid ambiguities, or you can write your own udev > rules to generate other symlinks in /dev that always point to the right > partit

Re: disk names at boot

2008-11-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:05:26 -0700, ghe wrote: > David Schmidt wrote: > > > I might be wrong but perhaps e2label is what you are looking for. > > Been there; done that :-) > > That would work to get the machine booted, as would using the UUIDs. But > I really want my system disk to be sda so

Re: disk names at boot

2008-11-03 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Schmidt wrote: > I might be wrong but perhaps e2label is what you are looking for. Been there; done that :-) That would work to get the machine booted, as would using the UUIDs. But I really want my system disk to be sda so the /dev filesystem

disk names at boot

2008-11-03 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have servers with a SCSI disk for the system and a RAID1 of SATAs for data. That's what I want, anyway. What I want to happen is the SCSI disk should always be sda, the SATAs should be sdb & c, anything IDE should be called hd, and externals should