At 18:54 20/06/00, Petko Alov wrote:
>In the context of discussion on "[ILUG] Security
>permissions for passwd", I looked once more in "man
>lilo.conf" and saw it is possibile to assign /dev/hd* or
>/dev/sd* entries according to bios # of the device.
>>Do anybody knows is it so, or I misunderstood something?
>I can't test it (one HD, no CDs on my PC). But if this is
>possible, it might help Fergal to resolve CD/DVD problem
>(though the aproach is not so flexible to allow recognition
>of individual partitions)
Don't know much about this but just in case anyone is interested the stuff
with LABEL= half worked.
Lilo doesn't seem to support anything but /dev/hdx for root or boot
specification.
Also mount is a bit dim and tries to mount them again, thinking they're
loopback file systems, this doesn't break anything but it generates errors
at boot time.
Finally there's no way to put a label on a swap partition so your swaps
will break even if your ext2s don't. Shame really, it'd be nice if the
distros adopted it, no more trying to remember whether /usr/local was hda14
or hda15,
Fergal
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