On Nov 6, 2007 12:54 PM, Wolfgang Woehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A chinese prosecutor might want to differ but I think opensuse's choice to > default to a storage device's serial number sucks badly. Ok, so the world is > not that simple. Still: Why not ask people during installation? >
The prosecutor steps in :) The device name will differ if you use the old PATA drivers to access IDE drives (/dev/hdx) and the new SATA drivers, which create /dev/sdx. As far as you can boot either way (providing the right boot options), hard-coding the device names is going to be mess. Same applies for future upgrades (with unknown yet driver/naming scheme), or swapping the drives in the machine, or moving the drive in another machine. The problem you see appears only if you clone the drive to another one. Then you only have to change the id in menu.lst and fstab. Cheers -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
