Stephen Gregory wrote:
> The hardware changes are handled automagically (kudzu handles this
> for Fedora/RH).
Does Linux have anything that automatically fixes /etc/fstab, or makes
it unnecessary? (Can LVM do this?)
My students have Linux on caddy drives that they plug in various places.
Of course, /etc/fstab on the caddy is wrong half the time; since, the
caddy drive may be on the primary IDE controller on one machine (/dev/hda
or /dev/hdb) and on the secondary IDE controller (/dev/hdc or /dev/hdd)
on another. Assuming you can edit the GRUB boot line to point at the
new location for the root partition, the system dies reading the wrong
things out of /etc/fstab.
I need a way to configure Linux so that it's happy being booted on
either IDE controller.
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