Re: Debian switches driver letters preventing boot
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On 02/03/07 22:56, Gmail wrote:
> Hello. I'm running the 'testing' release. I found that once I upgrade
> to the 2.6.18 kernel my box wouldn't boot.
>
> The boot lines in my grub's menu.lst lines are (with different
> variations for version number):
>
> /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-3-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro vga=791
>
> What appears to be happening is that while the kernel starts to boot, it
> seems to change the drive letter of the disk containing the / partition
> to /dev/hde. I'm not entirely clear about the boot process, but I
> believe this happens when the initrd partition is mounted.
>
> No amount of futzing with the fstab seems to come up with a
> configuration that will work for me.
>
> If I boot to single user mode, I can usually manage to manually mount
> the other filesystems. So for instance, while all my system partitions
> are on the same physical drive, I currently have the following:
>
> # mount
> /dev/hde1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
> /dev/hda6 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda7 on /var type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/hda8 on /home type ext3 (rw)
>
>
> That is, /usr, /var, and /home are mounted with /dev/hda* and / is
> mounted as /dev/hde even though it's the same drive.
>
> The boot drive is on an HPT366 controller, not the motherboard's
> built-in IDE controller.
>
> Is this something I can fix by configuring udev somehow?
Following the Nick Boyce's path: a self-built kernel which has the
filesystem drivers compiled-in might not suffer this problem.
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