On 3/28/2007 8:28 AM EST, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Rob Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-03-28 07:47]: > >> I have a serial console, and did the install through that. I also did >> the installer image install via Redboot/TFTP. >> After booting, I go through the menu options, etc. and partitioning. I >> notice that the first hard drive shown during install is sdb, whereas >> the second is sda. After install, I had to switch the USB cables >> around, because it was trying to boot from the drive that the install >> had marked as sdb (weird). >> > > There's no guarantee what disks will be labeled. To use more than on > disk without having them change names, you need to mount them as > /dev/disk/by-uuid/... You can put this into /etc/fstab and then you > need to run: > update-initramfs -u > flash-kernel > Is it not true that the linux kernel won't necessarily mount items in fstab based on partition label? As part of D-I RC2 manual partitioning, one is given the option to label the partitions (new or those that would be formatted), but I thought I read somewhere that the partition labels themselves can't be used in /etc/fstab but I could be wrong. Is that what you are referring here (uuid)?
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