On Friday, 22 Sep 2006 09:10:22 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: >> I recently upgrade a perfectly functional sarge laptop to etch. It has >> one standard internal IDE hard drive. Now, about half the time it >> boots up as hda, and the other half the time it boots up as hde. After >> the initramfs stage, if the drive is identified as hde, it fails to >> boot unless I create a symlink from /dev/hde2 to /dev/hda2. There seems >> to be no rhyme or reason to why the same drive sometimes appears as hda >> and sometimes as hde. > I fixed my problem by using the disk label based identification feature. ... > You will need to change the fstab to replace the device name (/dev/hda1, > for example) with a LABEL= directive (as in LABEL=/usr). For booting, > edit the grub menu.lst file 'kernel' line from 'root=/dev/hda1' (or > whatever it actually is) to 'root=LABEL=/...' (more on this below).
Thanks. This fixed it perfectly. I still don't understand why the drive is alternating between hda and hde designations, but using the label identification allows the machine to boot-up every time. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
