On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:43:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > Can't you just boot with /dev/disk/by-id/ and an initramfs to not have > to worry about such a thing in the future? > Can comebody remind me what the initramfs is for in that situation, please ? From the little I've noticed, I thought the /dev/disk/by-id part went into fstab ? At the moment, I just build the things I think I need in to the kernel on that box, without modules. Anyway, I'll try to find time to read my notes to see if I can identify what happened/when, and to take the box down again so I can try to confirm exactly what the problem is, if it still exists. I certainly won't be taking it down until I've written my weekly backups to tape at the weekend, so maybe not before next week. > Have you tried the PATA drivers instead of IDE to see if this solves the > "moves around" issue? If they work, then you would not need the command > line option at all. My previous kernel was 2.18-series, I think at that time they were still under development. This box handles the backups for my various desktop boxes, which is why I'm very conservative about changing it. I guess the drivers are stable now, I'll maybe give that a go (depending on time). Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
