Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

From: James Simmons (jsimmons@transvirtual.com)
Date: Wed May 16 2001 - 15:05:47 EST


> > I very often had to move disks from one platform to another, and changing ID's
> > on the was hard or impossible in some cases, and required in others. Being
> > able to find the disk by a label is a thousand times better.
>
> Did you ever try grub?? This a gnu project, a boot-loader, with an embedded
> shell... You can read ext2fs and select, your kernel, your root disk, your
> params, etc...

Yes I have tried it. Pretty cool. The only thing is what do you do if
/boot sites ontop of a non ext2 partition?

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