On Thursday 03 April 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:13:19PM -0200, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: > > On the device front, the 2.6 kernel has much more knowledge of the > > device internals (a necessity driven, in particular, for > > laptops). Hotplugging is the norm rather than an exception - the > > kernel no longer differentiates between a device discovered at boot or > > a device added later. The kernel now is even able to know of devices > > whose drivers have not been loaded yet. The infrastructure dealing > > with boring stuff like reference counting, power management, etc., has > > been unified. This does have implications for userspace - since the > > kernel operates differently userspace may need to do much less work > > now and do it differently than before. > > The other day I upgraded a system by using YUM from Fedora Core 5, to > Fedora 8. I don't know whether it was a change in the kernel or a > change in the way the Fedora team did something but my hard drives > changed from /dev/hdx to /dev/sdx. They were both 2.6 kernels. > > The change was easily acommodated once I figured out that what > had happened and why it booted fine with the FC5 kernel, but > paniced with "no root device found" with the F8 one. > > I only had to change /etc/fstab and /etc/rc.d/rc.local, but I was > lucky. :-) >
I ran into the same problems with two recent 2.6.x kernels - one of them from Linus with my own home-grown .config and the other the Mandriva distribution kernel. See this bug report for more information: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=35432 I also had to tweak /boot/grub. Regards, Shlomi Fish --------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/ I'm not an actor - I just play one on T.V. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
