In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a computer with an Intel mainboard (I"ll look up the exact model later > if it matters) running Etch. > > / is an 80G SATA on SATA1. > /data is a 500G SATA drive on SATA2. > > I've never had any trouble with the system. > > I ran out of space on /data so I've installed a 3rd drive, 750G. I've only > got > 2 SATA ports left, 3 and 4. If I plug the new drive into either one, the > machine boots, the bios recognizes the new drive just fine, the boot info > shows sdc, but after all the drive and ethernet detection, I get the > following message: > > Begin: Waiting for root file system . . . . . . > > (I'll note here that as soon as I unplug the SATA cable from the new drive > and > reboot everything works again, so the original two drives & file systems are > still just fine.) > > After some delay (two minutes?) I get this: > > Done. > Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline > or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev > ALERT! /dev/sda2 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! > > Then I get a busybox/initramfs shell. > > > ls /dev/sd* only shows: > > sda sdb sdb1 sdb2 sdc sdc1 > > From that I guessed that the boot order hand changed (obviously sdb now has > the swap and root partitions, and c had the 1 data partition, and a is the > blank new drive. > > So I rebooted and edited the GRUB commandline to make root=sdb2 and sure > enough it works. > > Now, I guess I /can/ use this setup, and just modify /etc/fstab so that the > thing will boot and mount properly on it's own, but I'd rather do something > to it so that it doesn't get so confused about the order of the drives. The > new drive should be sdc, and the old drives should be sda, and sdb, like they > already were. > > Is there something I can do about this? To make the new drive be sdc, I mean? > > Thanks, > > JW Count yourself lucky. I have a system where the sata controllers come up in random order. sda is sometimes moved to sde. You can only use LABEL= for ext2/ext3 filesystems. Not for swap. So when my controllers get switched The system wont boot, drops to ramfs. Is there no way to control the order that the sata controllers get mapped ? Stuart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
