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walt wrote: |
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> Okay, my root partition is on /dev/sda (normally), which is a sata |
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> drive connected to the onboard sata controller. |
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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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Here's an interesting factoid -- somewhere between kernel 2.6.28 and |
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2.6.30, the system for naming scsi disks changed. All I did was use |
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a newer kernel and the reversing device names went away. |
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