Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1523 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sunday, 2010-03-14 at 06:11 +0100, David Haller wrote:


> > There really isn't such a problem. Boot a rescue system and look into
> > its /dev/disk/by-id and use the name matching your disk. But I agree
> > that by-id doesn't help in all cases.
>
> I meant: ok, now you've booted e.g. the SUSE rescue-system and want to
> change the IDs in fstab and grub's menu.lst.
>
> $ ls /dev/disk/by-id/...
>
> Hm. Which one of those is it? Ok, it should be .....-part3.
> <fx:moves mouse, try to select the id>
> Darn. No gpm.
>
> So, how do you get the id into the two files? Of course, you could
> boot a live DVD/CD with X and Mouse, or a console-livesystem with GPM.
> Or save the ls output to a file, and use an editor opening both files
> to do the C&P. Still sucks. Or write down the ID and enter it manually
> (good luck with tyops). I'd rather change e.g. /dev/sda3 into
> /dev/sde3 or whatever and can do that with just about any editor or
> even plain bash and a bit of pattern matching/replacing magic ;)

Yes, that's a nuisance, not having an editor that read those. Except the 
suse partition manager in YaST.

> > > I simply have /dev/sda3 in fstab and as
> > > kernel-parameter and didn't have to change a thing.
> >
> > Pure luck.
>
> Not really ;) I've only had disks "moving" when I booted a live-DVD
> (Ubuntu or Knoppix) that loaded both drivers in reversed order, so my
> sda3 became sdg3.

Again: pure luck. Meaning: you are lucky.
Me, my computer changes the names on each boot depending on which external 
drives are powered up.



> > > BTW: splash=native is a must! :) Don't ever nobody hide no useful
> > > kernel messages from me![1]
> >
> > There's a IMNSHO better way and that's splash=verbose. That way you
> > keep the background image (in case you choose something more pleasing
> > than the default).
>
> Image? What image? Is there an image? Oh, I remember a "verbose" boot
> during installation. Horrid. Guess what's just about the first thing I
> change during bootmanager installation?

Exactly. I take care to change to verbose as soon as I can. What use are 
progress bars for, when you can watch a cute verbose logging text?  >:-)

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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