I have never run Suse, but if I look at /etc/fstab in my Ubuntu I see a
couple of lines:
# /dev/sda1
UUID=35148e2b-3719-4ccf-a1f5-e08491f76871 /               ext3
relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1

I have used UUID to have USB drives be mounted in the right places.

If you have similar in your /etc/fstab, I would try (for this example)
replacing the UUID.=3... with /dev/sda1 .  Save a backup of course, and have
an emergency cd ready in case this turns out to be bad advice.

Good Luck

-- Patrick Timlick

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. <[email protected]>wrote:

> I seems if you move a openSuse 11.1 hard disk to another computer, it
> starts booting up, hangs for a bit, and then switches to black and white
> console and gives the message:
> Could not find /dev/disk/by-id/ata_WDC_WD800JB-OOJJCO_WD-WMAM bla bla bla.
>
> If you wait a bit, it will start a bash shell. It obviously found the
> disk and booted something. You can then do a ls command, change
> directories etc., but you can't do much.
>
> If you take the disk back to the computer on which you made the
> installation, it boots up fine.
>
> Searching for the first part of the error string "Could not find
> /dev/disk/by-id/" finds several folks having the same problem moving or
> duplicating openSuse Installations. Most of them had to resort to
> booting the install CD and repairing or reinstalling (Beginning to sound
> a little like Windows??).
>
> A customer of mine runs some flavor of a SuSE server in their back room
> and therefore would like to deploy openSuse based systems in one of
> their industrial control system products. However, if a system located
> in Rusia, Japan or even Alabama should have a disk failure and need a
> new disk,  or should the main board die, having to make the new disk on
> the target hardware would be a pain.
>
> Has anyone on this list encountered this problem?
> Is there a simple way to reconfigure something and get openSuSE to run
> on multiple machines?
> Do you think not being able to run on any hardware other than the
> installation hardware is a good idea?
>
> Wayne
>
>
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