On Wednesday 19 October 2005 22:00, Ian Brandt wrote: > Is there some reason the symbolic links wouldn't have worked?
None that I'm aware of. > My fear is if I change my root in fstab to /dev/sda3 my 2.4 kernel > won't come back up, and at $125/hr I'm really trying to avoid getting > the NOC involved. Leave both sets of entries, just comment out the full scsi path ones. Make sure a monkey could put it back right. > Is there any way to determine/test whether the configuration is going > to work under devfs and/or udev without actually rebooting? After > editing /etc/fstab to /dev/sdaX I tried: Kinda, yes. Add /dev/sdXY entries, but under someother directory, /mnt/gentoo for example. i.e. /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo auto noatime 0 1 /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot auto ro,noatime 0 0 etc, etc The mount -a, and see what happens. > But is that a true test of whether it is going to work on reboot? It's as good as your going to get, without rebooting :) > I'll look into that, but same question applies, is it possible to > verify my changes before I reboot? Just the mnt/gentoo thing. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
