On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 02:49:44AM +0800, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > I have an external SATA hard drive plugged via esata to my Debian box, > whereas my internal hard drive is also a SATA hard drive. > when my box is rebooted, sometimes the external SATA hard drive is chosen > as internal hard drive, so I have to reboot again. > > I have tried to fix this issue with udev, but without success. > I guess that I missed something: how can we fix the trouble ?
Here we go again. This is a recurring problem with the sd* drives getting assigned in different orders with each boot. The solution is to add a label to each of the filesystems on your drives. You don't have to reformat as each filesystem's utilities provides a way to do this. For ext2/3 its tune2fs and look for the lable option in the man page. Once you label everything, you have to change the references: 1. for boot, the kernel command line has to be root=LABEL=[label] 2. for /etc/fstab, change referennces to e.g. /dev/sda1 to LABEL=[label]. Then reboot. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]