On 06/10/30 07:58 (GMT-0400) Steffen Winterfeldt apparently typed: > You can of course switch to mount by label/uuid and get rid of the > 'classical' device names. Which is, I believe, more or less the targeted > long-term solution.
But will this let you install to sata when the installer can't see your "sda21" partition that proprietary operating systems/kernels have no problem using or creating? That inability means Linux never gets installed to this multiboot sata only system where / is allocated to /dev/hda16 aka /dev/sda16, and rearranging both partitioning and backup/restore strategies is simply not doable. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214992 > Note that the names are not the real problem with this step but that sd* > allows for less partitions per device than hd*. For several hours I've been searching unsuccessfully through http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ trying to find out why libata uses the scsi path and consequently scsi's absurd 15 partition per disk limitation. I know the limit itself is a block major/minor limit, but can't find any background on the choice to take the scsi path, or discussion of any proposals to work around the limit. Any help finding this would be appreciated. -- "The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped." Psalm 28:7 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
