[LBo] Kernel eide v. scsi

[Tim]

I'm not sure but I think there was a change in the kernel that now lists all 
drives as sd** as opposed to hd**

Can anyone confirm

Tim

On Mon October 1 2007 16:38, Geoff Jones wrote:
> I have an old amd duron 800 box with 2 eide drives - running debian
> testing. I recently did a kernel upgrade from 2.6.18-4 to 2.6.21-2.
>
> The newer kernel seems to read the drives as scsi and will only boot with a
> grub [ menu.lst ] entry of "root=/dev/sda3". This invalidates my
> "/etc/fstab" file as it is written in terms of "hda" and "hdb".
> The older kernel still boots with "root=/dev/hda3".
>
> Although I have done the Rute + Intro-linux courses, the kernel remains
> a bit of a mystery to me.
> I would appreciate it if someone could tell me why the newer kernel acts in
> this way + how I could rectify it ?

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