On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:36:05 [email protected] wrote: > I used for a while the combination of SCSI (3 hard drives) and a PATA data > drive. (reason for this set up was large scsi drives being difficult to get) > It for most part was not satisfactory, the Linux kernel having some kind of > built in bias far PATA. For instance when uodating the kernel with lilo one > had to unplug the PATA otherwise the lilo command would fail.
That's probably a BIOS bias. Lilo calls the real mode BIOS to get some information on how boot should work. > On a UUID enabled system (before I changed it back to using device's) I > swapped a pair disks between devices. On reboot system failed as it could > not mount the drives. I had assumed according to the UUID docs that the > drives would be mounted according to UUID to mount point mapping given in > fstab, this did not occur. Mounting the root filesystem is determined by the initrd/initramfs in conjunction with the kernel command-link (from the boot loader). Data from /etc/fstab should be used in configuring the boot loader and/or setting up the initrd/initramfs. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
