Re: [gentoo-amd64] OS setting in BIOS

2008-05-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 25 May 2008 17:02:07 Mike Doty wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: | I was poking around in my BIOS this morning and rediscovered a setting | to define the installed OS. I'd wondered about it some time ago and | then forgotten about it. | | I can set the BIOS setting OS Installation to

[gentoo-amd64] OT - Which is better CF or thumb drive?

2008-05-27 Thread P.V.Anthony
Hi, So far I have building servers for internal use, using Compact Flash on IDE connector. Using ext3 file system. Only about a year of use. So far it is great. Just got a simple cheap Dell tower server with AMD opteron chip. The motherboard has no IDE connector. I think more and more

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT - Which is better CF or thumb drive?

2008-05-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 28 May 2008 01:14:01 +0800 P.V.Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, So far I have building servers for internal use, using Compact Flash on IDE connector. Using ext3 file system. Only about a year of use. So far it is great. Ext3? You know that journalling will cause additional

Re: [gentoo-amd64] OT - Which is better CF or thumb drive?

2008-05-27 Thread Richard Freeman
Florian Philipp wrote: BTW: UIDs and/or volume labels are the way to go if you want to avoid problems with changing device names. This won't help you much with booting but for any other partitions you can always use /dev/disk/by-uuid/ or one of the other directories under /dev/disk to