Re: Recent upgrade causes drive lettering scheme to alternate from hda to hde
On Friday, 22 Sep 2006 09:10:22 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote:
>> I recently upgrade a perfectly functional sarge laptop to etch. It has
>> one standard internal IDE hard drive. Now, about half the time it
>> boots up as hda, and the other half the time it boots up as hde. After
>> the initramfs stage, if the drive is identified as hde, it fails to
>> boot unless I create a symlink from /dev/hde2 to /dev/hda2. There seems
>> to be no rhyme or reason to why the same drive sometimes appears as hda
>> and sometimes as hde.
> I fixed my problem by using the disk label based identification feature.
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> You will need to change the fstab to replace the device name (/dev/hda1,
> for example) with a LABEL= directive (as in LABEL=/usr). For booting,
> edit the grub menu.lst file 'kernel' line from 'root=/dev/hda1' (or
> whatever it actually is) to 'root=LABEL=/...' (more on this below).
Thanks. This fixed it perfectly. I still don't understand why the drive is
alternating between hda and hde designations, but using the label
identification allows the machine to boot-up every time.
Adam
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