Hi, Recently I added an old PATA HD to my system, which previously consist of two SATA HDs. Ever since then, the order of my SATA and PATA are keep switching.
NB, it is not that I can't boot, I can boot just fine, but half of the time the boot process will drop to that single user PANIC mode, saying sdbX can't be found. It looked to me that PATA was sda more than not, so I arrange my fstab like that, but due to so many boot failures, I'm not sure what's udev's picks actually is now. I've looked and seems that it is a well-known Debian only issue. E.g., http://linux.error-exception.org/article/1085839/dual+boot+mix+of+SATA+and +PATA(EIDE)+drives http://linux.error-exception.org/article/1267483/SATA+and+PATA+keep +switching+drive+alias "In my experience Debian derived distros don't handle the mix of [PS]ATA drives at all well. Seems to be a result of initscripts/udev rules not matching the device order the BIOS enumerates. Flat out bug. I avoid the issue by using a distro that can work these things out sensibly. Usually Arch, although I also have Fedora 15 as the inital boot system on a machine that Ubuntu couldn't handle. Sorry I don't have a better answer for you." Anyone know the cure? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/km9sc0$o7b$1...@ger.gmane.org
