On 07/19/2010 02:58 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
When I put the disk in the new system, grub starts ok, and the kernel boots. At some point it says it is waiting for /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6L250R0_L59ST7RH-part3 to come on line. It never does. I get a command prompt, and very few commands.
Roger, I have fought this same fight several times. What I find usually happens is that, as Felix says, there is a different module/driver or version of the same driver that causes you disk/by-id information to change. You can see this if you boot from just about any 'live CD' and check the 'by-id' info. Most of the time the actual numbers stay the same, but the prefix gets changes like: scsi-SATA become sata-ATA or the like. I've never rebuilt the initramfs to fix it, what I've done is just figure out what it is going to be by looking at what the by-id info is on the box I'm moving to or by sticking a live-CD or boot CD in and checking. This isn't always 100% because if the kernel versions are too far off, then that can cause a change in the prefix as well. Just fiddle with it. Worse come to worse, just change your /boot/grub/menu.lst to use the old /dev/sda1-9 verbiage, get it booting, then change back to the disk/by-id method. The disk is just a disk and the partitions are just partitions -- you just have to figure out what the system wants to call them :p P.S. God forbid you have one like gparted that wants to go back to the /dev/'h'da1-9 verbiage. gparted actually did that to me about a month ago. Good luck -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org