linux-kernel - Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

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Message-Id: <1157376429.30801.57.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:27:09 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"linux-ide@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: PATA drivers queued for 2.6.19

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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