Bug#517565: After new Debian installation, boot loader attempts to load root filesystem before usb hard drive has been found
package: debian-installer
version: 20090123
After a new installation of Debian, the boot loader attempted to load
the root filesystem before the usb hard drive containing the root
filesystem had been found.
Workaround:
Manually edit grub's menu.lst. There is a line starting with "kernel".
Add "rootdelay=20" to the end of the line. A different number besides
20 may be used depending on how slow the usb hard drive is.
This problem was only noticed after solving the problem of grub trying
to load the root partition from the wrong drive.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517563
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