Comments on: Hard Disk Configuration Survey

By: Harald Kommedal

Harald Kommedal — Thu, 15 May 2008 00:11:01 +0000

I just did the survey. One question that was NOT mentioned was the fact that it CAN cause confusion when:
On SuSE 10.2 my drives are: HDA, HDC and SDA. SDA is boot-drive.
On SuSE 10.3 my drives are: SDA, SDB and SDC. SDC is boot-drive.
On Kubuntu 8 my drives are: SDB, SDC and SDA SDA is boot-drive.
Note that A B C is in different order.
The REAL order is hda, hdc, and sda. BIOS has SDA (the SATA-drive) as first.)
All drives here are LISTED in the same device-order, but with differnt names.
It REALLY makes for some head-scratching when it comes to get GRUB to access the different systems. A LOT of manual editing is required.
I really would like to see HDC to be HDC !

By: Livio

Livio — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:15:01 +0000

Fedora did no surveys, so I did this one and will every another .

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:32:13 +0000

I gave up when it would not accept ‘Other’ as an answer

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:30:59 +0000

I gave up when survey would not accept ‘Other’ as an answer

By: superppl

superppl — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:45:56 +0000

Done and done. Don’t know why, but I love taking surveys.