Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2532 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 07 May 2008 09:14:29 am Ken Schneider wrote:
> Bob S pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

> > > > > > > Unfortunately what is done is done and I understand there is no
> > > > > > > going back.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What makes you think no going back?
> > > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > > I am pretty sure that I read on this list that the option for choosing
> > > > > the legacy drivers was only at installation time.
> > > > >
> > > > > Bob S
> > > >
> > > > Nope. If you do choose to use the legacy driver you will need to also
> > > > modify your fstab file accordingly.
> > >
> > > Hmmmm.....Really !!  How do I do that ?  From the install DVD?  I
> > > certainly wouldn't mind hand editing the fstab files.
> >
> > Hmmmm....No response from Felix or Ken, nor any comment from Carlos who
> > suffers the same malady  as I,  Sooooo...guys, can you, or cannot you "go
> > back" and if you can, how do you do it???  Is it at every boot? or can
> > you fix it permanently??
> >
> > Bob S
>
> As I said, you need to modify the entries in fstab from sdxx to hdxx for
> the IDE drives. And also change menu.lst accordingly. As far as how,name
> your poison, I use vi.
Ken,

Bear with me here. I must be one dumb old codger. Are you telling me that if I 
just edit the fstab files and the menu.lst file that I will get back the 30+ 
partitions that libata took away?

Bob S
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