In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > * Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> [121206 09:27]: >> Hi, >> >> on one of several machines I have a problem with initramfs. >> >> The machine has a single SATA drive. When the kernel boots it shows >> that it is called /dev/sda,.... >> Now, within the init script of my initramfs it tries to mount /dev/sda2 >> as root but fails. >> Since the initramfs spawns a shell (busybox) I can see the device files >> for /dev/sda? >> but fdisk /dev/sda fails. >> As it turns out, the harddisk is now named /dev/sdb with /dev/sdb? >> partition names. > [..] > > I can't tell you why it changed but after my device names got messed > around with (after an upgrade) and the next boot mounted /home on /tmp > and an initscript blew away a bunch of home directories before I caught > it I switched to mounting via UUID. Once you find the UUID to use it's > easy and alleviates lots of problems in the future. > > Todd
All of the partitions of my HDD (including the root partition) are LVM partitions so I don't have to worry about this problem at all. -- Regards, Gregory.
