Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:24:53AM -0700, Trent Shea wrote: It really depends on how you build your kernel; hd* is still valid, as far as I'm aware. That's not my experience. My /dev/hd* devices disappeared when I upgraded 2.6.27 to 2.6.28 and I have no /dev/sr* or new /dev/sd*

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/11/24 linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com: On 11/24/09, Jeremy Henty onepo...@starurchin.org wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 08:24:53AM -0700, Trent Shea wrote: It really depends on how you  build your kernel; hd* is still valid, as far as I'm aware. That's  not my  experience.  My  

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Am Dienstag 24 November 2009 17:36:32 schrieb linux fan: As far as I am aware, greub always did, always will, call them hd. I also think so. To be exact, it calls them hd when it means in grub-speak (hd0, and they can be called sd when it means in real-speak /dev/sda (if it is sata) So you

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread linux fan
On 11/24/09, Ken Moffat wrote: The names of the devices in grub and within linux are two separate things. For an explanation of why /dev/hdX becomes /dev/sdX see Simon's response to another thread. /dev/hdX (from the old IDE drivers) is now regarded as legacy, except for old ppc

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Paul W. Lane
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/24/09, Ken Moffat wrote:  The names of the devices in grub and within linux are two separate things.  For an explanation of why /dev/hdX becomes /dev/sdX see Simon's response to another thread. If the kernel is

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Kc9EYE
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/24/09, Ken Moffat wrote:  The names of the devices in grub and within linux are two separate things.  For an explanation of why /dev/hdX becomes /dev/sdX see Simon's response to another thread. If the kernel is

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Kc9EYE
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/24/09, Ken Moffat wrote:  The names of the devices in grub and within linux are two separate things.  For an explanation of why /dev/hdX becomes /dev/sdX see Simon's response to another thread. If the kernel is

menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-23 Thread stosss
Also for the record the book LFS 6.5 does not tell you that the entries in menu.lst and fstab need to be sd now and not hd. LFS 6.5 chapter 8.4.2 the last entry before EOF should be sdxx and not hdxx cat boot/grub/menu.lst EOF # Begin /boot/grub/menu.lst # By default boot the first menu entry

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-23 Thread Trent Shea
On Monday November 23 2009 05:19:32 am stosss wrote: Also for the record the book LFS 6.5 does not tell you that the entries in menu.lst and fstab need to be sd now and not hd. It really depends on how you build your kernel; hd* is still valid, as far as I'm aware. -- Trent. -- http

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-23 Thread stosss
I went through the menuconfig 4 times. Compiling/not compiling scsi made no difference when it came to error I was getting. I am not at the computer now and won't be for several more hours. Where is the setting and why did changing the two files and three entries from hd to sd work? I don't have