Re: device name problem after update
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Paul E Condon
<pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
> On 20100309_225735, Angelin Lalev wrote:
>> After almost each update of my debian lenny kernel I have my IDE disk
>> name changed. Once it's hda1 then is hdc1 and keeps flip-flopping. Is
>> it a known problem?
>>
>
> I'm aware of an issue with naming devices in Squeeze, but you say
> Lenny. Are you sure you are using Lenny, i.e. stable, as opposed to
> Squeeze, i.e. testing?
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Thanks for the information. Now I know what's doing it and how to fix
it. But I will send some more information just in case it's a bug. I
use lenny and never touched the fstab of that machine manually. But I
run xen which loads it's own "xenified" kernel.
My /boot/grub/menu.lst (I run debian and ubuntu virtual machines on
their own real partitions)
I use the first row always (currently Xen 3.2-1-i386)
===========================================
server:~# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst | grep -v \# | grep -v ^$
default 0
timeout 30
color cyan/blue white/blue
title Xen 3.2-1-i386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/xen-3.2-1-i386.gz
module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-686 root=/dev/hdc1 ro console=tty0
module /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686
title Xen 3.2-1-i386 / Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-xen-686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/xen-3.2-1-i386.gz
module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-xen-686 root=/dev/hdc1 ro console=tty0
module /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-xen-686
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.28.9-al1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28.9-al1 root=/dev/hdc1 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28.9-al1
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.28.9-al1 (single-user mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28.9-al1 root=/dev/hdc1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28.9-al1
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.28-11-server
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-server root=/dev/hdc1 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-server
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.28-11-server (single-user mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-server root=/dev/hdc1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-server
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-686 root=/dev/hdc1 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-xen-686 (single-user mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-xen-686 root=/dev/hdc1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-xen-686
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hdc1 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 (single-user mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686 root=/dev/hdc1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-xen-686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-xen-686 root=/dev/hdc1 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-xen-686
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-xen-686 (single-user mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-xen-686 root=/dev/hdc1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-xen-686
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/hdc1 ro quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-686 (single-user mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686 root=/dev/hdc1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
title Other operating systems
title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-server
uuid 297ae396-2033-42da-ad3b-640b5f3f01d5
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-server
root=UUID=297ae396-2033-42da-ad3b-640b5f3f01d5 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-server
quiet
title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-server (recovery mode)
uuid 297ae396-2033-42da-ad3b-640b5f3f01d5
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-server
root=UUID=297ae396-2033-42da-ad3b-640b5f3f01d5 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-server
title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+
uuid 297ae396-2033-42da-ad3b-640b5f3f01d5
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet
My current fstab (I never changed it manually)
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
#/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
To make the things work, after the last flip-flop of the names, I must
just update my menu.lst and just replace every instance of hdc1 with
hda1. And it will work probably up to the next time I update the
kernel.
I will try with UUIDs though, if they are supported in lenny.
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