On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Richard Shaw wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson >> <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Richard Shaw wrote: >>>> Some other thoughts about hardware upgrades: >>>> >>>> Both machines I upgraded the ethernet changed to "eth1" but I'm not >>>> sure where to get rid of the old settings but it's working so I may >>>> leave it alone. >>>> >>> Udev keeps tract of some hardware. It is mainly so things like >>> network interfaces and CD/DVD drives retain the same label when you >>> add new hardware. (It is a pain when you add another NIC, and it >>> becomes eth0...) You can fix it by deleting the >>> *-persistent-*.rules. For NICs, it is 70-persistent-net.rules. >>> Unless you transfered CD/DVD drives with the hard drives, you are >>> going to find that the CD/DVD symlinks are wrong as well. >>> >>>> Maybe there could be some sort of hardware upgrade helper to help with >>>> this process? It could install itself on your system as a rescue image >>>> to help walk you though the process like preupgrade but for hardware. >>>> >>> That sounds like a good idea. Maybe an option in the rescue mode to >>> rebuild the initrd image. Also a command in /sbin to delete the >>> persistent rules... >>> >>> Mikkel >> >> Thanks, I forgot about that. I had a similar thing happen when I >> upgraded DVD burners and completely forgot about udev rules. Hmm... >> along with a hw version of preupgrade maybe a udev device editor would >> be nice too? >> >> Richard >> > Well, you can edit the rules by hand. But it is just as easy to > delete them. Udev will the re-create them on boot for the new > hardware. The first NIC it finds will be eth0, the first CD/DVD with > be cdrom and cdrom0, etc... > > Mikkel Well since we're talking about a tool that doesn't exist yet, maybe the yet to exist program hw-preupgrade could just clear all the system specific rules out as a standard practice? Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
