Re: Pb with added disk (pciide) becoming wd0

[tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 02:26:47PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 13:42, <tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have some IDE disks that I'd like to read in order to know what is
> > left on them before deciding what to do with them.
> >
> > I bought a PCI-E IDE adapter to be able to connect them, since my AMD64
> > is SATA.
> >
> > The problem is that the pciide connected disks appear first hence, after
> > successful boot by the bios with loading of the correct kernel from the
> > correct disk, the supplementary disk becomes wd0 and conflicts with my
> > fstab.
> >
> > My two "permanent" disks are still disklabel'ed (no GPT).
> >
> > Is there a way to give identifiers to the "permanent" disks, in fstab,
> > so that whatever I add, the system can identify unambiguously the disks
> > in fstab?
> >
> > Or do I have to resort to recompiling the kernel with explicitely
> > setting the devices in the conf?
> 
> For disklabel, ROOT is your friend (see fstab(5)).
> 
>     If the first field starts with the prefix ?ROOT.? the prefix is replaced
>     with ?/dev/[root_device]?, where [root_device] is the value of the
>     ?kern.root_device? sysctl.
> 
> So update fstab to start ROOTa instead of /dev/wd0a (similarly for any
> other filesystems on that same disk).

Precision: I'm still on 8.0 and I think ROOT is available with 9.0...

I will go for now with a recompilation of the kernel and locators.

Thanks!
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