On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 15:12, <tlaro...@polynum.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 02:26:47PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 13:42, <tlaro...@polynum.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have some IDE disks that I'd like to read in order to know what is > > > left on them before deciding what to do with them. > > > > > > I bought a PCI-E IDE adapter to be able to connect them, since my AMD64 > > > is SATA. > > > > > > The problem is that the pciide connected disks appear first hence, after > > > successful boot by the bios with loading of the correct kernel from the > > > correct disk, the supplementary disk becomes wd0 and conflicts with my > > > fstab. > > > > > > My two "permanent" disks are still disklabel'ed (no GPT). > > > > > > Is there a way to give identifiers to the "permanent" disks, in fstab, > > > so that whatever I add, the system can identify unambiguously the disks > > > in fstab? > > > > > > Or do I have to resort to recompiling the kernel with explicitely > > > setting the devices in the conf? > > > > For disklabel, ROOT is your friend (see fstab(5)). > > > > If the first field starts with the prefix ?ROOT.? the prefix is replaced > > with ?/dev/[root_device]?, where [root_device] is the value of the > > ?kern.root_device? sysctl. > > > > So update fstab to start ROOTa instead of /dev/wd0a (similarly for any > > other filesystems on that same disk). > > Precision: I'm still on 8.0 and I think ROOT is available with 9.0... > > I will go for now with a recompilation of the kernel and locators.
Ah - or "boot -s" then manually "mount /dev/wd2a /" & exit?
