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On Jul 1, 2013 9:45 PM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2013-07-01, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On 01/07/2013 23:52, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> >> I've just recently run into a problem where sometimes when a machine |
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> >> boots, the kernel can't find init. This appears to be because my grub |
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> >> configuration line says "root=/dev/sda5" and _sometimes_ the drive |
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> >> that contains my root partition is sdb instead of sda. AFAICT, for the |
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> >> past 30 years the linux kernel was 100% consistent in the order that |
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> >> hard drives were labelled -- but recently that has seems to have |
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> >> changed. |
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> >> |
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> >> I use partition labels in my fstab, so that's not a problem, but after |
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> >> all these years, the kernel still doesn't know how to grok parition |
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> >> labels. |
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> >> Are we really expected now to set up an initrd just so that the kernel |
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> >> can find the root partition?? |
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> > Where have you been for the past 6 months? |
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> > Did you miss the entire clusterfuck debate about latest udev tricks? |
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> No. |
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> > Those names depend only on the order in which devices are discovered, |
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> > and that process has always been indeterminate. |
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> Really? I've been running Linux on a lot of machines for 30 years -- |
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> often on machines with a half-dozen hard drives -- and I never saw |
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> drive order change from one reboot to the next until today. That's |
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> quite a lucky streak. |
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Since Linus started writing Linux in 1991 (22 years ago), I want to know |
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which time machine did you use. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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