On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:28:56PM +0100, Dan Poltawski wrote: > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:27:51PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > It might be possible that the names sda to sdd were used for something > > that wasn't an hard disk during the install (a card reader with 4 > > different slots might be a good candidate). Then your system would > > still boot properly with your old device.map because grub detected > > that sde was the first hard disk, but then you wouldn't be able to > > run update-grub because your first hard disk is sda now. Could you > > check this in the installation log or by running the debian installer > > again to the point where it detects all the disks? > > You are exactly right! The machine has a 4 slot card reader (as do my > collegues who experienced the exact same problem. Looking at the installer > log this is exactly what happened. > > Attached is the relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog
And here is dmesg output of currently running system (they have indeed swapped since the installer): [ 13.029040] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access TEAC USB HS-CF Card 4.08 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 13.030753] scsi 6:0:0:1: Direct-Access TEAC USB HS-xD/SM 4.08 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 13.039924] scsi 6:0:0:2: Direct-Access TEAC USB HS-MS Card 4.08 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 13.042754] scsi 6:0:0:3: Direct-Access TEAC USB HS-SD Card 4.08 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 [ 13.048067] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 13.048131] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [ 13.053311] sd 6:0:0:1: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 13.053373] sd 6:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 [ 13.058303] sd 6:0:0:2: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 13.058365] sd 6:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0 [ 13.062752] sd 6:0:0:3: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 13.062752] sd 6:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0 Dan
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