On Wednesday 03 November 2004 07:42, O Plameras wrote: > > 4. Question :- do people need to change all SATA entries from HDA etc. > > to SDA to use the new libata ? > > I'd be really greatful if somebody with 2.6.8 or 9 could send me a > > copy of their fstab file, and tell me whether it was installed fresh > > or as an upgrade from 2.6.7. > > Again, you don't if you did not re-arrange the physical connections.
I'm pretty sure this is wrong. My understanding is that in earlier kernels sata devices were recognized as IDE devices, post 2.6.7 they were recognized as SCSI devices. so regardless of whether cabling has altered or not the fstab entries will be wrong and need to be modified. on my system for example the first sata disk was /dev/hde and the root partition /dev/hde1 this needed to be changed to /dev/sda1. fortunately i use grub and usually leave the old kernels listed in menu.lst, so it was simply a matter of booting into a 2.6.5, altering fstab and rebooting into 2.6.8. regards, brett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
