On Monday 10 January 2011 12:25:00 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 17:08:29 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote: > > 1) If my IDE ZIP drive is plugged in, it is detected as /dev/sda; my > > first SATA drive is then detected as /dev/sdb. The system panics because > > it cannot find its partitions. For the time being, I've unplugged the > > ZIP drive. I've not tried booting with USB drives plugged in. either > > udev did not upgrade properly, or the rules need stweaking. > > Please attach /etc/fstab, and log from the error. Fstab attached to prior. Attached here are three items - dmesg output - the sd nodes in /dev showing the change - mount output showing that sda *was* the hard drive It appears that the ZIP drive has been made sda, even though it appears in dmesg as sde; sd[a-c] are shifted to sd[b-d] when this happens. It's scary that the md arrays start up anyway; that's the wonder of by-uuid usage. The problem appears to happen always on cold boot. I *think* it happens less 'reliably' after a reset. Something tells me nodes aren't supposed to be renamed while they are in use....
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