On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:11:03PM +0000, Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: > I had the same problem and despite my existing drive being connected to what > was labelled on the motherboard as SATA1 it in fact was not! Trial and error > gave me the correct one... It would be useful if the nodes were more fixed > but most systems do not change after initial set up and this situation can be > fixed quite easily.
It's worth noting that the "correct" way to do this is now with fs labels or UUIDs. Personally, I use LVM for everything but boot/root/swap, and that uses UUIDs internally, so I don't have much issue (it would be sweet if Gentoo could easily boot from LVM, but that requires an initrd). Anyway, I'm not too sure how to indicate a UUID to the kernel for its root fs. There's a RedHat kernel patch that allows you to specify e.g., 'root=LABEL=myroot' on the kernel cmdline, but I'm not sure if that's available in the stock Gentoo kernel, or if it supports UUIDs. You can use 'LABEL=foo' or UUID='fooo-ooo-ooo..' in /etc/fstab, though. Dustin -- [email protected] mailing list
