On 11 Jun 2009, at 16:37, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Donnerstag 11 Juni 2009, walt wrote:
...
The problem is that I also have a plug-in ESATA docking station,
which
is not always powered on. When it *is* powered on, my kernel names
the
disk /dev/sda, and that forces the root device to be named /dev/sdb
instead of sda. Crashing ensues during bootup.
...
I've tried using a disk label in fstab instead of a device name,
but the
problem is that the kernel mounts the wrong partition before it has a
chance to read fstab.
...
afaik you can use labels in grubtoo.
I believe you need an initrd/initramfs in order to do so.
See Neil Bothwick's first post:
http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg81584.html
Stroller.
