[mythtv-users] Ubuntu Edgy -> Feisty upgrade report

[David Campbell]

Brian Wood wrote:
> Bill Williamson wrote:
>> On 5/1/07, David Campbell <dave at cpfc.org> wrote:
>>> Bill Williamson wrote:
>>>> On 5/1/07, Jon Boehm <jbpub at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> This actually went much better than I thought it would.  Here are some tips.
>>>> My upgrade had one, and only one, issue:
>>>>
>>>> 2.6.20 has a bug where the cx88 DVB drivers don't load by default.  A
>>>> simple addition to the modprobe.conf fixed that.
>>> I haven't upgraded yet because I had various problems with upgrades on
>>> other systems.  The fact that all IDE disk devices are now /dev/sd[a-z]
>>> rather than /dev/hd[a-z] for example.
>> Where did you hear that?  It didn't do that to either of my boxes.
> 
> I don't use (K)Ubuntu but I agree with David, this *can't* be correct,
> every Linux user on the planet would be aware of such a drastic change
> in basic system operation. I can't conceive of a reason to make such a
> change, and I can think of several reasons that it would be a bad idea.

Here is one example thread of many

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=405630

Dave