hi
2009/1/18 Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk:
On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 18:20 +0000, Dan Hatton wrote:
the drive on which I keep my root filesystem has changed its name from /dev/hda to /dev/sda. Is this expectable behavior? Should I edit my "root" boot option and fstab accordingly? Or does it indicate something wrong?
No it is possible...it might be as simple as some storage driver was using a legacy ATA emulation fallback to access SATA drives and is now in native mode.
I think (but am not 100% sure) that the kernel team has moved over to libata as per default, so all disk devices will be visible as sdX. There's probably a way to change this back to the previous default. Dan, did you compile the kernel and mess it up a bit? Just have a look at the config and disable libata as default. (I think also normal SATA/SCSI devices don't use libata... but I would probably be wrong - I'm sure Dan can look at the kernel config and see if that's the case).
Srdj