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Hi Dale, |
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Dale wrote: |
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> Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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>> that approves my tests ... :-/ |
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>> Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched |
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>> arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the |
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>> wrong one. It seems there is also some timing involved regarding the |
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>> initialization of the available devices ... sigh. |
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>> |
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>> - Jörg |
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> I had to reboot last night and was in my BIOS looking for other things |
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> but did notice this feature. I have a setting in my BIOS that tells it |
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> what drive to look for to boot first. It's above the part where you |
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> tell it to boot CDROM, hard drive, floppy, ZIP and other bootable |
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> things. You may want to check and see if you have the same thing. Mine |
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> is called "hard disk boot priority". I'm not sure this will help but it |
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> couldn't hurt to check I guess. |
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The first device to try is my HD and as alternative I can only select the CD |
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drive anyway (which is deactivated). At boot time I can still switch into a |
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boot menu of the BIOS to select something else. |
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> I also noticed something else that may not be related. I enabled AHCI a |
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> while back and noticed it will not boot from a CD/DVD when in that |
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> mode. I have to set it back to IDE for it to be able to boot from other |
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> than the hard drive. Maybe if you set yours to AHCI, it will skip the |
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> external stuff like USB? |
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All of this is set to AHCI. And I rather not set this to IDE. |
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> I'm seriously pulling it out my butt here. I hope one of these will |
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> help. ;-) |
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What really annoys me is, that I had no problems with this in kernels before |
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2.6.35 :-/ |
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Anyway, thanks for your help, |
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Jörg |
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