Hi Joost, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Monday 03 January 2011 18:43:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> Hi, >> >> starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device >> changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel >> it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned >> a device first. Since my computer has an internal media bay (and my >> monitor has such a thing also) the first HD moves - it I take care it is >> now /dev/sde3. However, if I forget to switch on the monitor and do this >> later or if an USB stick is already plugged in at boot time, the HD gets >> a different device number again. >> >> Can somebody else confirm such a behaviour with the 2.6.36 kernel and how >> can this brought back to normal operation? >> >> - Jörg > > One way to avoid USB-devices to be picked up before the kernel picks its > boot- device is to put the USB-stuff as modules and have them loaded > later. > > I haven't found a way to delay usb-device detection yet. If nothing else helps ... :-/ - Jörg
