SATA disk device naming ?

[Robert M. Stockmann]

Hi,

After a rather tiresome nightly sit through, we discovered that when
going from kernel 2.6.3 to kernel 2.6.7 the SATA disk device naming
on at least the AMD64 platform changes from : /dev/hde and up 
to /dev/sda and up. What a total disaster. 

Effectively this means that your installed AMD64 platform based
linux distro cannot mount its root filesystem anymore.

We installed mandrake 10.0 amd64 and had to go back todo a initial
install on a UDMA IDE disk on /dev/hda.

Is there in such cases a smart workaround available, maybe as an extra
GRUB/LILO boot option ? And why was the device naming changed in 
such a fatal way, effectively going from IDE to SCSI device names.

Googling for "kernel init no init found" results in :

Results 11 - 20 of about 323,000 for kernel init no init found. 
ouch :(

Regards,

Robert
-- 
Robert M. Stockmann - RHCE
Network Engineer - UNIX/Linux Specialist
crashrecovery.org  stock@xxxxxxxxxxx

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