Why is Redhat's EXT3 incompatible with Mandrake

On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 15:10:52 -0500, General Schvantzkoph mumbled something like this:

I'm not sure about Redhat EXT3 and Mandrake being incompatible, but Mandrake definitely seem to do things slightly differently.

I recently tried to install Mandrake 10.1 official on a multi-boot machine which had been running RH9 as one of the OS's. The Mandrake install was able to see the RH9 EXT3 parbreastions and to mount them, but *it mis-identified the drives!*

The machine in question has three drives and a DVD-CD rewriter on the 2 motherboard IDE channels and 2 drives on the 2 channels of a PCI Promise TX2 100 RAID controller. Redhat identifies the drives attached to the M-B as hda, hdb, hdc and hdd and recognises the drives on the RAID controller as hde and hdg. Every install I have done has ordered the drives in this way.

Mandrake's install recognised the drives on the RAID controllers *before* the ones attached to the M-B, resulting in the M-B attached disks being identified as hde, hdf,hdg and hdh and the drives attached to the PCI controller being recognised as hda and hdc! At this point, I abandoned the install, having no confidence that Mandrake would be able to create a working grub configuration...

Rinso -- wizz~~~~~~~~~~~~