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Stroller wrote: |
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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, which |
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>>> is not always powered on. When it *is* powered on, my kernel names 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, 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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That's a very interesting link, thanks. |