Re: The order of my SATA and PATA are switching all the time
On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 01:21 +0000, T o n g wrote:
> On Wed, 08 May 2013 08:40:57 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> >> Can I use something like root="ID=ata-IBM-DBCA-203240_HP0HPL43952"? I
> >> remember nothing worked well, so I reverted to the (now troublesome)
> >> "safe" /dev/sdXn.
> >
> > /dev/sdXn is *not* safe. That's the whole point.
>
> If you read my message again, you will realize that /dev/sdXn was not my
> first choice but a settled down one, because I tried root="ID=ata-IBM-
> DBCA-203240_HP0HPL43952" etc, but nothing worked.
>
> All I was asking is what the working *syntax* for the root="ID=ata-IBM-
> DBCA-203240_HP0HPL43952" part.
I believe you can specify the root file system by it's UUID or label
using
root="UUID=foo"
and
root="LABEL=bar"
but then you can also do that in /etc/fstab (and I also thought that's
what the Debian installer does), e.g. I have
UUID=f0d625bb-e0bf-45c0-9c11-1a697271b960 / ext4 noatime,errors=remount-ro 0
so /dev/sdX shouldn't appear anywhere. I guess this means I must have
misunderstood what the original problem was?
--
Tixy
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