On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:28:09PM -0500, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote: > > I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another > > situation > > that makes it much worse: > > > > - User boots off USB stick > > - sda is USB, sdb is SCSI or SATA > > - GRUB install on (hd0) (i.e. sda) fails. > > - Manual repairing is not possible, because if you boot a rescue system > > off USB stick, root disk will still be sdb. > > Is this theoretical with SATA, or have you reproduced it? > > The usb sticks include sata-modules as well as usb-modules, so AFAICS, > hardware detection should happen in the same order when booting from the > usb stick as booting from eg, netboot. > > And I don't understand your report about problems with SCSI either, > since the USB stick also includes all SCSI modules.
It sound pretty simple, in netboot case, there is no usb stick to take sda... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
