Subject: Re: partition bookkeeping
To: Oleg Polyanski <luke@eed.miee.ru>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/22/1999 22:56:56
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 12:47:43AM +0400, Oleg Polyanski wrote:
>
> IS> I, as a rule, jumper the system disks (all the non-external disks) to
> IS> the low scsi id's, so that they don't jump if I change the external
> IS> configurations. :-)
>
> Too many magic, IMO. In both cases. I vote for good device naming
> scheme that will prevent from annoying mistakes.
... and prevents you to make booting GENERIC kernels.
-is