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Apparently, though unproven, at 21:36 on Monday 03 January 2011, Jörg Schaible |
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did opine thusly: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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> >> Hi, |
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> >> |
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> >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device |
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> >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new |
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> >> kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is |
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> >> assigned a device first. Since my computer has an internal media bay |
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> >> (and my monitor has such a thing also) the first HD moves - it I take |
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> >> care it is now /dev/sde3. However, if I forget to switch on the monitor |
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> >> and do this later or if an USB stick is already plugged in at boot |
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> >> time, the HD gets a different device number again. |
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> >> |
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> >> Can somebody else confirm such a behaviour with the 2.6.36 kernel and |
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> >> how can this brought back to normal operation? |
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> > |
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> > This has been solved long ago: Label your filesystems and mount them by |
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> > label. |
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> I did this long ago, therefore I can switch between the old and new kernel |
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> easily. |
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> > For example, don't put "/dev/sda3" in your fstab, but label that |
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> > filesystem with a name like "root_fs" and use |
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> > "/dev/disk/by-label/root_fs" in fstab. |
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> > Ext2/3/4 filesystem can be labeled with the "e2label" tool. For example: |
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> > e2label /dev/sda3 root_fs |
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> > After that, modify your fstab accordingly. |
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> And how does this help the kernel to find the root device where /etc/fstab |
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> is located ? |
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Does |
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boot=LABEL=<boot_device_label> |
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in grub config work for you? |
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