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]. -dnh -- It took us fifteen years and three supercomputers to MacGyver a way to power the gate. -- Samantha Carter, Stargate -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org