Bug#353299: usb stick install causes grub to try to boot from /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sda
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 (in october 2008, using an USB disk containing a netboot initrd.gz of lenny/testing).
I edit /etc/fstab & Grub to use UDEV by Label.
Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@lysator.liu.se> said:
The installer [& grub] can use LABEL or UUID by default to identify partitions.
I totally agree.
Maybe GRUB 2 will help to do this ?
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