On 6 February 2014 16:09:32 CET, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: >On Thursday 06 Feb 2014 14:30:24 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 06/02/2014 08:19, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > On Wednesday 05 Feb 2014 20:02:00 Joseph wrote: >--->8 >> >> Here it is: grub.conf >> >> >> >> default 0 >> >> timeout 30 >> >> >> >> title Gentoo Current Kernel >> >> root (hd0,0) >> >> kernel /boot/kernel-current root=/dev/hda3 >> > >> > Shouldn't that hda3 in the kernel line be sda3? >> >> No, he said earlier in the thread that this is an ancient box using >the >> old deprecated IDE subsystem. >> >> His fstab refers to drives as hd? > >Yes, I saw that after I hit Send. (So what else is new?) > >Seems to me that too many things need updating before Joseph can switch >to the >latest thing in init systems. > >Maybe he should go back to his last working system (from backup?), go >through >his kernel config piecemeal, setting sensible options, and generally >bring the >box up to date. Then he can start experimenting with the latest ideas. >(Sorry >Joseph, I don't mean to talk about you as though you weren't here!) > >I forget: how many years is it since the ancient /dev/hd? scheme was >superseded and deprecated? > >-- >Regards >Peter
Not sure. I switched my last machine over to the sd-scheme 2 holidays (sometime in 2012) ago. (It's a netbook I only use during holidays as a picture store and viewer) -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
