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From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
To: Gerhard Schmidt <schmidt@ze.tum.de>
Subject: Re: ata controller problem
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Hi,

On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 10:25:41 +0200
Gerhard Schmidt <schmidt@ze.tum.de> wrote:

> On 26.10.2012 18:00, Polytropon wrote:
=> > I'm not sure if this can be done, but using labels should
> > make the question go away, and the problem causing it. :-)
> 
> Labels are good for naming Drives but how does it help me if the root
> filesystem changing device ids. I don't think the boot loader is able
> to use the label for the root Filesystem.
>
put a root file system on all drives and make it bootable. I use this
trick also. You do not need that much space there to get the system up
compared to the size of current media.

Erich