-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2010-03-15 at 21:35 +0100, David Haller wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Device names are not stable. In my machine one day sda is /dev/sda, another it is /dev/sdd. It depends on the external disks being powered up or not. If I used such names in fstab my machine would not boot.
Do you have 'usb-storage' in your initrd? If so: you need that only to boot from usb-attached stuff, i.e. as long as you don't have root=<some_usb_device> in your menu.lst for that kernel/initrd, through out usb-storage from that initrd. No usb-storage, no /dev/sd*. So, as you need the driver (ahci, sata_*) in your initrd to boot, the devices on the controller with that driver should reliably get /dev/sda to /dev/sd[whatever].
Huh? No, I'm talking about external sata drives, ie, on e-sata cables. If they are not powered, sata1 gets the name /dev/sda. If they are powered, eSATA-1 is named /dev/sda instead, but machine still boots from sata-1 as it should. I don't have on that computer disks on usb. Currently. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkuexJQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UpvQCcDN97UdrvdBXZYQ3tOcxKFtCQ 6aIAnA2dto6J+PHEyPcYVyL2uQz08Aaw =LtJg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org