Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:12:45 -0500, Dale wrote:

> I would like either the old IDE drives to come first, since I rarely 
> ever move them or grub to work with labels.  I have a entry in
> grub.conf that uses the labels but i have not rebooted yet.  According
> to what I have read it will work.  The only concern is that if grub
> doesn't like labels and I add another  drive, then I got to edit the
> grub boot line to boot and it took me a couple tries to get this
> right.  It seeing what used to be the last drive first sort of took me
> by surprise.  I don't like surprises to much.

Press c to get the GRUB command line and then use find to identify your
root partition - find /etc/fstab will work unless you have two root
partitions. There's no need for suck-it-and-see editing of config files,
you only have to change menu.lst after you have found and tested the
correct boot options.

-- 
Neil Bothwick

Next time you wave at me, use more than one finger, please.

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