Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1231 mails)

[Lukas Ocilka <lukas.ocilka@xxxxxxx>]

Arvin Schnell wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:30:34AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > "Stefan Kunze" <skunze@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > Hi if have installed the 11.1 B4 from DVD yesterday. 
> > > My notebook has an internal IDE harddisk. In 11.0 it was recognized as sda. 
> > > In 11.1 Beta 4 it is recognized as hda (like in old days)
> > > Is this intentional or is it a bug?
> > Looks to me like a bug - please report it in bugzilla.
> >
> > > On another maschine i tried to install it and it recognized the USB stick 
> > > as sda and the internal harddrive as sdb. I cant think of any reason why 
> > > this should be intentional. 
> > That's why we use the device by ID method to identify the drives.
>
> But during an update you will likely run into problems anyway:
>
> Prior to 11.1 the scsi-SATA-* id was preferred and that is not
> generated for IDE drives.

Which means, ... hmmm ... try to "mount by" LABELs and then upgrade
(which can cause conflicts when more disks with partitions using the
very same LABEL are used).

Is there any method that preserves the same name all the time?

L.