Mandriva 2008 uses /dev/sda for IDE drive

Bit Twister

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:03:13 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:43:58 -0400, Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>
> What happens if the drive already has more that 15 partitions?

No idea, it's a scsi device number limit.

> # sfdisk -l -uS /dev/hda|tail -n 1
> /dev/hda17 88437888 156296384 67858497 8e Linux LVM

>
> I suppose I could change a couple of the extended partitions to primary
> ones,

Yeah, I set up my second drive as extented, looks like I'll wipe and
use those 3 primarys for common directories.


> I assume any changes would have to be done prior to installing
> 2008. Can the install be used to work with hda, instead of sda,
> to facilitate preparation for the install?

Partition movements, yes. Current partition install, no.
I just clicked away in a normal custom install and found the sdX
numbering after boot. That and realtime instead of default in fstab.
I replaced the 2008.0 MBR grub install with the 2007.1 MBR grub, copied in the
2008 stanza and so far so good.


title /2007_1
root (hd1,10)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb11 acpi=on splash=0 vga=790
initrd /boot/initrd.img

title /2008_beta
kernel (hd1,11)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb12 splash=0 vga=790
initrd (hd1,11)/boot/initrd.img