Fritz Hudnut composed on 2023-10-07 00:41 (UTC):
Leap seems to have switched sdc drive for sdd internal drive
It was a common problem two decades ago, called "inconsistent device enumeration". Even though all my many PCs are multiboot, it has been a rare problem here since a modest time after I began using SUSE around 20 years ago. For "internal" (SCSI, SATA, PATA & PCIe connected) drives, the problem of "external" drives (USB, Firewire, anything removable except SCSI/SAS) intercepting drive name assignments can be minimized in several ways: 1-do not use legacy drive names sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, sde...sdX for configurations. 2-do use UUID and/or LABELs and/or the assignments in /dev/disk/, not what they link to. 3-keep BIOS set to ignore external boot devices except for specific boots needed. 4-exclude USB storage device support in initrds: omit_drivers+=" usb_storage " in dracut cfg. 5-connect removable storage devices only after boot completes. 6-retire use of both PATA & SATA bootable storage devices in the same PC. Use one or the other, not both. 7-put all operating systems on the same storage media. Most PCs here have only one internal storage device. Most with more are RAID components. There are probably others I'm forgetting. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata