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On 11 Jun 2009, at 16:37, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009, walt wrote: |
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>> The problem is that I also have a plug-in ESATA docking station, |
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>> which |
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>> is not always powered on. When it *is* powered on, my kernel names |
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>> the |
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>> disk /dev/sda, and that forces the root device to be named /dev/sdb |
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>> instead of sda. Crashing ensues during bootup. |
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>> ... |
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>> I've tried using a disk label in fstab instead of a device name, |
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>> but the |
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>> problem is that the kernel mounts the wrong partition before it has a |
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>> chance to read fstab. |
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>> ... |
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> afaik you can use labels in grubtoo. |
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I believe you need an initrd/initramfs in order to do so. |
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See Neil Bothwick's first post: |
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http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@l.g.o/msg81584.html |
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Stroller. |
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