On Nov 7, 2007 12:03 PM, Wolfgang Woehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> People clone for a tight spec range. They will not mix pata and sata boards
> and expect things to work. Motion denied.
>
> > As far as you can boot either way (providing the right boot options),
> > hard-coding the device names
Dienstag, 6. November 2007 Sunny:
> The prosecutor steps in :)
>
> The device name will differ if you use the old PATA drivers to access
> IDE drives (/dev/hdx) and the new SATA drivers, which create /dev/sdx.
People clone for a tight spec range. They will not mix pata and sata boards
and expect
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The Tuesday 2007-11-06 at 16:38 -0600, Sunny wrote:
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The problem you see appears only if you clone the drive to another
one. Then you only have to change the id in menu.lst and fstab.
In which case you could use "labels" instead of uuids. Or
On Nov 6, 2007 12:54 PM, Wolfgang Woehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> A chinese prosecutor might want to differ but I think opensuse's choice to
> default to a storage device's serial number sucks badly. Ok, so the world is
> not that simple. Still: Why not ask people during installation?
>
The p
Dienstag, 6. November 2007 Greg Freemyer:
> We actually do a lot of cloning of our lab machines. We edited the
> grub/fstab fields to go back to /dev/sda, etc. prior to making the
> clone. Our machines are similar enough that it works for us.
>
> If there is a better way, we're all ears.
yast -
Dienstag, 6. November 2007 Chee How Chua:
> IIRC, during the installation, there is an option under the advanced
> section for partitioning for you to choose whether you want to use the
> ID or the device name (e.g. /dev/sda).
Oops, this I missed. It shouldn't be hiding in advanced though.
Wolfg
> One of guys hit this issue too. I don't know what he had to fix in
> grub's menu, but I know the final fix wa in /etc/fstab, so don't
> forget to have your friend update that as well.
>
> We actually do a lot of cloning of our lab machines. We edited the
> grub/fstab fields to go back to /dev/s
On 11/6/07, Verner Kjærsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tirsdag 06 november 2007 10:01 skrev Matthew Stringer:
> > Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > - reported by a friend of mine, when cloning (ghosting) a 10.3 disk in
> > > its entirety, the cloned disk will not boot due to t
Tirsdag 06 november 2007 10:01 skrev Matthew Stringer:
> Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > - reported by a friend of mine, when cloning (ghosting) a 10.3 disk in
> > its entirety, the cloned disk will not boot due to the serial numbers of
> > the cloned disk doesn't match the serial of
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- reported by a friend of mine, when cloning (ghosting) a 10.3 disk in its
entirety, the cloned disk will not boot due to the serial numbers of the
cloned disk doesn't match the serial of the original disk.
- apparently this serial is written somewhere in t
Tirsdag 06 november 2007 08:42 kvad Verner Kjærsgaard:
> - reported by a friend of mine, when cloning (ghosting) a 10.3 disk
> in its entirety, the cloned disk will not boot due to the serial
> numbers of the cloned disk doesn't match the serial of the original
> disk.
>
> - apparently this serial
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