This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan [ackstorm] said: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: grave > > I'm sorry I can't provide the exact details (dmesg logs, etc) as the hardware I > was testing on died, but the breakage is as follows: > > - d-i Linux boots and detects USB ports using SCSI emulation. They're mapped > as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Note: there's nothing attached to these ports. > > - After accessing the CD, d-i loads extra SCSI modules for the RAID that wasn't > detected using the standard SCSI drivers. It is detected and mapped as > /dev/sdc. > > - Installation proceeds normaly using /dev/sdc. > > - After install we boot normaly, and then detection happens in a different > order: /dev/sda is the SCSI RAID and /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc are USB drives. > > - System won't boot because /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab point to the > wrong paths. > > I'm not sure what the right fix is. Perhaps disabling the USB-SCSI emulation ? Either use udev rules to map the RAID array to a consistent device name, or use filesystem labels in fstab and menu.lst. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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