[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Andrea, Andrea Conti wrote: >> Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched >> arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 > > Try disabling CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC ("Asynchronous SCSI scanning" under > SCSI options). While it is not a solution, this might somewhat reduce > the rando

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 07 January 2011 15:01:48 pk wrote: > On 2011-01-07 10:34, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: > > > > Another option would be to patch the kernel to either support Labels > > natively or to have it include a "scan harddisks in following > > ord

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread pk
On 2011-01-07 10:34, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: > Another option would be to patch the kernel to either support Labels natively > or to have it include a "scan harddisks in following order:" option which > lists which harddisk-drivers (sata/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:47:28 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote: > What really annoys me is, that I had no problems with this in kernels > before 2.6.35 :-/ Have you tried diffing the configs to look for a potential cause? -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 12: Plastic glasses signature.asc Desc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi Dale, > > Dale wrote: > > Jörg Schaible wrote: > >> that approves my tests ... :-/ > >> > >> Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched > >> arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Dale, Dale wrote: > Jörg Schaible wrote: >> that approves my tests ... :-/ >> >> Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched >> arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the >> wrong one. It seems there is also some timing involved regarding the