Re: sata and esata: trouble
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:50:40PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
> >>Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >>>On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:49:44AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> >>>>I have an external SATA hard drive plugged via esata to my Debian box,
> >>>>whereas my internal hard drive is also a SATA hard drive. when my box
> >>>>is rebooted, sometimes the external SATA hard drive is chosen
> >>>>as internal hard drive, so I have to reboot again.
>
> >Or, instead of menu.lst and update-grub, you can test the kernel option
> >by pressin e, while at grub boot menu and editing the kernel line
> >temporarily for that particular boot.
>
> But the root cmd still needs to be hardcoded!
Oh, yes, grub's root command.
My bios gives me a boot menu to choose which device to boot.
I suppose if your BIOS is changing the device order based on whether or
not you have an eSATA device plugged in, that the problem is between
BIOS and GRUB. Once the kernel gets going, LABEL should solve the
problem.
Doug.
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