root <root@hed040-237.research.nokia.com> said:
> During the install, the usb stick was considered
> /dev/sda, while the SATA harddrive was /dev/sdb. Everything worked
> fine until the first boot, in which the usb stick was removed, and
> the SATA hard drive became /dev/sda, which grub did not expect. Also
> the fstab was referring to /dev/sdb.
I ran into this too. I don't think the installer can do much if BIOS renumbers
the disks, but it could make sure that GRUB is in fact installed on the right
disk, and it could use LABEL or UUID by default to identify partitions
in /etc/fstab. It might also display a warning when it finds that the
installation medium is /dev/sda-something and the target medium
is /dev/sd-something-else, perhaps even asking the user if the device numbers
in /boot/grub/menu.lst should be decremented by one.
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Magnus Holmgren holmgren@lysator.liu.se
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