On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > > I think thats the wrong solution. That will fix the boot, but sda might be the external disk and sdb the internal one. I believe you can write a udev rule to force the internal disk to sda Stuart
