f8 boots!

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Dec 18 16:50:04 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Now, let me ask the other question I've muttered about.  I'm currently
>> running 2.6.24-rc5 here, home built of course.
>>
>> In the kernel config, I don't see an option I can set that will switch it
>> from
>> using the ide drivers to using the libata stuff.  This of course will mean
>> I have to label everything in the system with tune2fs and edit my fstab
>> and grub.conf as I go, but it seems to me that would solve my cross
>> mounting
>> problems a lot cleaner than futzing with everything else.  So how do I
>> enable these new libata operations in a locally built kernel?
>>
>> That is tonight's question.
>
>It seems to me that there are two quite separate issues here -
>LABELing partitions, and using libata.
>You can use LABELs with the old ide setup,
>and it seems to me more sensible to do that first.
>
>Incidentally, is tune2fs ths normal way to label partitions?
>I always use e2label.

tune2fs I think is the swiss army knife tool.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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<liiwi> so, what's the official way to get buildd to retry a package? prod
        it with a stick?
<Joey> prod neuro
<liiwi> with a stick?
<Joey> yes.




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