-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? >:-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuc7fsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Wb9gCeISkitm3axZnCdsozR9BpvzW+ IPEAn3EqZT4TjoCsrdL559335PJ27aPZ =eO2W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org