Bug 242262
Summary: | Fedora 7 2.6.21-1.3 kernel has IDE disabled by default | ||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | WebMasters, Inc. Support <support> | ||||
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | low | ||||||
Version: | 7 | ||||||
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Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2007-06-04 21:04:36 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
WebMasters, Inc. Support
2007-06-02 20:16:17 UTC
Created attachment 155993 [details]
Config files from FC6 and FC7 as well as working 2.6.21.3 config upgraded from FC6 config
Config files from FC6 and FC7 as well as working 2.6.21.3 config upgraded from
FC6 config
Found this in the release notes for FC7: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-Kernel.html New IDE drivers that use the same libata code as the SATA drivers. [Important] IDE Device Names Changed The new IDE drivers now cause all IDE drives to have device names such as /dev/sdX instead of /dev/hdX. If the /etc/fstab or /etc/crypttab files reference these devices by name, they must be migrated before the system can access those partitions. Not sure if this would be the cause of it as rebooting remotely and updating through YUM, would not be able to diagnose if harddisks weren't accessible. Need console output to get an idea why the system isn't booting, but indeed, the removal of the old IDE drivers was intentional. I'm pretty sure this is a NOTABUG. We didn't update /etc/fstab or anything to change hardware locations to sdX as indicated in those release notes. Sorry for the confusion! If this is NOT A BUG, then redhat/fedora appears to be subverted by microsift.
I guess next step will be adopting ``advanced'' nameing scheme: C:\, D:\, etc.
>:>
This ``intentional removal of the old IDE drivers'' and transition to SCSI API
leads to lots of problems. One critical point: scsi drives can only have
14 partitions, while IDE discs have 64 reserved minor numbers and can contain
62 partitions (zero is the whole disc and one partition is ``wasted' for EXT).
If fedora maintainers cannot imagine installations using more than 16 partitions
that doesn't mean they do not exist. And BTW, LVM is not an adequate replacement
for such partitioning as partitions could be used as RAID members,
while logical volumes do not.
This is just an example (and this partitioning problem DOES really exist),
there are other problems as well (performance, stability, reliability, etc).
That's why I call this ``solution'' idiotic and now tend giving up using fedora,
fortunatelly, there are other Linux distributions. :(
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