On Tue,12.Aug.08, 01:04:00, Aniruddha wrote: > Regularly my hard disk device names change ( e.g. from sdc to sdh to sdb > etc). When this happens it becomes impossible to boot. > > To prevent this from happening I 've added 'disk/by id' to fstab > (because the disks uuid were also changing) and 'boot from uuid' to my > menu.lst I wonder: > > -What is the best way to prevent the device names change from happening? > -If it happens what is the best way to quickly fix this problem? I prefer to use labels, because they are readable (compared to UUID) ;)
$ grep '^# kopt' /boot/grub/menu.lst
# kopt=root=LABEL=sid ro vga=0x368
You have to run 'update-grub' after changing this
$ grep sid /etc/fstab
LABEL=sid / ext3 errors=remount-ro,noatime,commit=600 0
1
For ext2/3 you set the labels with e2label.
Regards,
Andrei
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