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 >> initialization of the available devices ... sigh. >> >> - Jörg > > I had to reboot last night and was in my BIOS looking for other things > but did notice this feature. I have a setting in my BIOS that tells it > what drive to look for to boot first. It's above the part where you > tell it to boot CDROM, hard drive, floppy, ZIP and other bootable > things. You may want to check and see if you have the same thing. Mine > is called "hard disk boot priority". I'm not sure this will help but it > couldn't hurt to check I guess. The first device to try is my HD and as alternative I can only select the CD drive anyway (which is deactivated). At boot time I can still switch into a boot menu of the BIOS to select something else. > I also noticed something else that may not be related. I enabled AHCI a > while back and noticed it will not boot from a CD/DVD when in that > mode. I have to set it back to IDE for it to be able to boot from other > than the hard drive. Maybe if you set yours to AHCI, it will skip the > external stuff like USB? All of this is set to AHCI. And I rather not set this to IDE. > I'm seriously pulling it out my butt here. I hope one of these will > help. ;-) What really annoys me is, that I had no problems with this in kernels before 2.6.35 :-/ Anyway, thanks for your help, Jörg
