On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Linda Walsh <suse@tlinx.org> wrote:
however, if your addition of disks has changed the "sd" ordering, it won't boot from the correct disk and your initrd won't be loaded either.
This is slightly off-topic: Linda, I admit that is a struggle because I reconfigure computer drives all the time. Each bios seems to have it's own way to break the boot process as drives, thumbs, USB DVD drives are added and removed. I bought a nice Intel MB a couple weeks ago. It was the first one I have seen that had a "static" option. Basically you connect up the drives you think you will use, then tell the bios to create a static boot sequence. From that point on, the bios quits futzing with it and lets you boot what you told it were boot devices. If one of your static devices is thumb drive and you boot without it, the boot table is not updated. If later on I do need to force a new boot device (USB thumb, USB DVD, eSata, etc.) I assume I will have to play with the bios a little to make it happen, but for the 99% of time I actually want to boot from the default boot device, I know have a stable solution. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org