Re: Stretch installation: thumb drive recognized as /dev/sda

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 09/06/17 06:07, gentooman@runbox.com wrote:
> I installed Stretch on my Thinkpad from a USB flash drive. Only after the
> installation, during the first boot did I notice that something was wrong. GRUB
> failed to load the kernel and after a short diagnosis I learned that for some
> reason, the Debian installer saw my USB thumb drive as /dev/sda and the SSD as
> /deb/sdb. This caused GRUB config to be wrong when I removed the flash drive
> after installation.
>
> I did some testing and apparently, if I booted the Debian installer from my
> Thinkpad X220's only USB3 port[1], it would be recognized as /dev/sda, and if I
> used a USB2 port, it would be /dev/sdb.
>
> Doesn't the Debian Installer/GRUB not use UUID? What caused the problem here?
> I've never experienced such a fail before or since but it did cause some
> confusion and made me reinstall.
>
>
> [1] FWIW, apparently only (some of?) the i7 models of X220 have a USB3 port.

Please run the following commands as root and post the console session 
(prompts, commands, and output):

# cat /etc/debian_version

# uname -a

# blkid

# cat /etc/fstab


And, if you're using LUKS:

# cat /etc/crypttab


David