On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mik...@infinity-ltd.com> wrote: > Richard Shaw wrote: >> >> Some other thoughts about hardware upgrades: >> >> Both machines I upgraded the ethernet changed to "eth1" but I'm not >> sure where to get rid of the old settings but it's working so I may >> leave it alone. >> > Udev keeps tract of some hardware. It is mainly so things like > network interfaces and CD/DVD drives retain the same label when you > add new hardware. (It is a pain when you add another NIC, and it > becomes eth0...) You can fix it by deleting the > *-persistent-*.rules. For NICs, it is 70-persistent-net.rules. > Unless you transfered CD/DVD drives with the hard drives, you are > going to find that the CD/DVD symlinks are wrong as well. > >> Maybe there could be some sort of hardware upgrade helper to help with >> this process? It could install itself on your system as a rescue image >> to help walk you though the process like preupgrade but for hardware. >> > That sounds like a good idea. Maybe an option in the rescue mode to > rebuild the initrd image. Also a command in /sbin to delete the > persistent rules... > > Mikkel
Thanks, I forgot about that. I had a similar thing happen when I upgraded DVD burners and completely forgot about udev rules. Hmm... along with a hw version of preupgrade maybe a udev device editor would be nice too? Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
