Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-08 Thread Dale
walt wrote: I've emerged grub-2 to play with but it's quite different from legacy grub and I don't yet have a good feel for it. If it solves this problem I'll let you know later. I wouldn't mind a new thread and you posting how it works and all. I wouldn't mind switching at some point

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-08 Thread walt
On 01/08/2011 05:07 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Joost, J. Roeleveld wrote: The easiest solution to this problem would be to ensure that the USB-subsystem is not scanned before the boot-device is identified by the kernels boot- process. This can be achieved by configuring the USB-mass-storage

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Mick
On 4 January 2011 11:01, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2011 09:44:05 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >> > One way to avoid USB-devices to be picked up before the kernel >> > picks its boot- device is to put the USB-stuff as modules and have >> > them loaded later. >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 09:44:05 Jörg Schaible wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > > One way to avoid USB-devices to be picked up before the kernel > > picks its boot- device is to put the USB-stuff as modules and have > > them loaded later. > > > > I haven't found a way to delay usb-device detectio

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Joost, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2011 18:43:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel >> it seems that anything that is internally c

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-04 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Paul, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jörg Schaible > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel >> it seems that anything that is internally co

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Stroller
On 3/1/2011, at 7:36pm, Jörg Schaible wrote: > ... > And how does this help the kernel to find the root device where /etc/fstab > is located ? The kernel doesn't. You leave that to GRUB. I'm not saying this helps solve your problem, I'm just sayin'. > BTW: Yes, I will boot next time with a LAB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:36 on Monday 03 January 2011, Jörg Schaible did opine thusly: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device > >> changes. With 2.6.35 and be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Stroller
On 3/1/2011, at 6:17pm, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> ... >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it >> seems that anything that is internall

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Jörg Schaible
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel >> it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB

[gentoo-user] Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a device first. Since my com