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Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Thu May 11 13:08:03 PDT 2017


On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 09:54:47AM -0700, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> 
> The main issue was that the strange ids inserted by the BIOS on
> the new cloned disks was different than that of the originals
> causing problems with the /dev/mapper idiocy.  This seems to hang
> around even after grep'ing through the entire /etc hierarchy
> looking for the old ID and removing it.
> 
> I finally figured out the 'dmraid -rE' would get rid of the Intel
> inserted ids, then normal /etc/fstab LABEL= entries would work as
> expected.
> 
> The upside of this is that I dug into the kickstart documentation
> to figure out how to create Linux RAID during automated installs.

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate the newer HAL models with udev,
/dev/mapper, et al?

I get the necessity in some scenarios, but I really miss the old-school way
of doing things, depending which platform I'm working with.

m->
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