Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

[Alan Cox]

Ar Llu, 2006-09-04 am 22:02 +1000, ysgrifennodd Grant Coady:
> I can't see an easy way to arrange multi-boot with different /etc/fstab 
> depending if I'm trying /dev/hdaX or /dev/sdaX.  Parallel '/' partitions?

Mount by label on modern distributions. You can also generally boot far
enough to just test by booting a libata kernel with
root=/dev/sdawhatever init=/bin/sh

Thats enough to get a test shell and poke around and check the boot
messages

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