Mandriva 2008 uses /dev/sda for IDE drive

Dave Farrance

I put Mandriva 2008rc1 into a spare partition on my laptop for a quick
test, and then had difficulty making sense of why it wouldn't boot from
a new entry in the original grub menu.

I finally spotted that the new /etc/fstab file used the device /dev/sda
and not /dev/hda for the IDE hard drive. So I changed the relevant
entry in the grub menu to that, and it worked.

Anyone know why Mandriva 2008 has got rid of "/dev/hda"?

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Dave Farrance

Bit Twister

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:34:03 GMT, Dave Farrance wrote:
>
> And I see that my DVD drive has gone from /dev/hdc to /dev/src.
>
> This'll mess up some of my self-written scripts. Oh well.

Yes, I have several common scripts which run across different machines
and releases. I have had to parse /etc/release to get release number
and and set variables to hide the needed command/device from main code.

Bit Twister

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:50:18 GMT, Dave Farrance wrote:

> I finally spotted that the new /etc/fstab file used the device /dev/sda
> and not /dev/hda for the IDE hard drive. So I changed the relevant
> entry in the grub menu to that, and it worked.
>
> Anyone know why Mandriva 2008 has got rid of "/dev/hda"?

common code, less code to support,....,
downside is 15 partitions, max.