Bug report
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Oct 26 01:58:13 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 09:00 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 06:19 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >
> >> I said that a bug report would be sent regarding the new F7 moving
> >> partition designators. This is it:
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=352181
> >>
> >
> > That has to be one of the strangest worded entries I've ever come across
> > from someone who speaks English. It's incoherent to the extreme, both
> > in the weird descriptions as well as the wrong terminology.
> >
> > /dev/sda is a device name not a partition name. Even /dev/sda1 isn't a
> > partition name, it's a device name referring to a partition.
> >
> > You don't boot a hard drive. You select a drive/partition to boot from.
> >
> > Just changing how you "use" a drive changes the designation? By that
> > description, using my hard drive more than I did yesterday could be
> > construed as the problem... Try something more understandable, like:
> > Changing the drive you boot from alters the device names for other
> > drives. Adding additional drives can change the device names for other,
> > even fixed, drives to change. To be logical, and coherent, it really
> > shouldn't have that effect.
> >
> > I don't know where to begin with "the Linux is a /dev/sda".
> >
> > You should really cancel that report, and start again with a coherent
> > bug report, and pick a more likely cause behind the problem. I'd guess
> > udev would be a better item to first bugzilla it against.
> >
> >
> I am sorry you don't like my bug report. But I have to say what you
> complain about makes no sense either. Now I expect whom ever is assigned
> that bug will have questions. Then I will answer them.
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as it sits, don't expect any action on your bug report, is does suck.
if you want them to investigate, you must add to the bug report
(answering on this list won't do):
- motherboard description
- Manufacturer
- Model #
- Processor
- RAM
- hard drive physical connection description for each hard drive
including:
- where connected
- IDE - primary master
- IDE - primary slave
- IDE - secondary master
- IDE - secondary slave
- SATA - port #
- OS installed & kernel version on each hard drive
- i.e. F7 x86_64 2.6.22.5-76.fc7
- grub.conf from each boot drive
- out from booting of each different system...
- fdisk -l /dev/sda
- fdisl -l /dev/sdb
etc.
If you don't give them enough information to process, they aren't gonna
bother - especially when they are just a few days away from new release.
I am suggesting this so you don't waste your time making bug reports
without adequate information.
Craig
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