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

[nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva)]

Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> writes:

> Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
>> 2010/8/27 J. Roeleveld<joost@antarean.org>:
>>    
>>> On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>      
>>>> On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>> My theory is something like this: hda will become sda; hdb will become
>>>>> sdb; hdc will become sdc; hdd will become sdd; and sda will become sde.
>>>>> Would that be a logical expectation?
>>>>>          
>>>> I'd say sda will stay as is, hda will become sdb, and so forth.
>>>>        
>> This entirely depends on the way your BIOS orders your drivers, as far
>> as I know. It could be either way. But, we all know how flexible grub
>> is. You can just use TAB to autocomplete and try. All you need to boot
>> is your root fs, after that fdisk -l will reveal all the info you
>> need. fstab is another story, that might cost you an extra reboot into
>> a livecd to fix it.
>
> Another thing that I hadn't thought of, grub.  I didn't even think
> about grub would have to be edited.  That would have been interesting
> when I tried to boot up.

You just need to feed linux with the right parameters, so it finds the
root filesystem. Grub id's themselves should remain the same, I suppose.

Also, as GRUB allows you to edit commandlines, you can do this by trial
and error (but a good initial guess is still worth it).


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