On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:15:41AM -0400, James.Smart@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > - There are some real challenges in supporting a udev-named boot > device. For the most part, it's a distro issue, which is becoming > better. PS: for $10, name a 2.6 distro that uses udev out > of the box for disk names and its installation. For $10 more, > can it install/boot from one? I won't get your $10, but RHEL4 has a mechanism to specify "install onto BIOS disk N", where N is typically 80h (it's an int13 number, what BIOS typically boots from). EDD in anaconda handles the mapping of BIOS disk number to /dev/whatever. And a few folks at Dell are working on a udev helper to let udev know this mapping too, and incorporating the same capability into SLES in the future. After install, file system labels have been working great for years. root=LABEL=/ syntax for example, and you can get as complex as you like with that label. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
