On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 14:40 +0100, Pierre Maziere wrote: > It seems that the update switched the /dev/sda and /dev/sdb which > explains the freeze during the boot sequence. > I switched the usb plugs and everything is now back to normal. > sorry for the noise You should not expect that USB disks will be found and assigned names in any particular order. You should specify partitions by label or UUID instead of device name. Ben.
Ben, it's a bug. At least formally. A capricious swap between harddrives that hangs the system it's a bug I think, overall if the debian installer assign mounts in /etc/fstab by device and not by label or UUID.
Or the d-i mounts the devices by UUID (so bug in d-i) or this is a bug in the updating the kernel (perhaps it's not the kernel bug itself but yes the process of updating)
But, don't mind me. I'm just a desktop user (ironicaly) ;-) Regards, Xan.