From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev detection weirdness
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 17:59:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <04C7523D-3F8F-4033-8B76-3A2E935E6547@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57469442.6060701@gmail.com>
> On Thu, 26 May 2016, at 7:14 am, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> … I couldn't figure out why and installed grub2 and used UUIDs as a
> temporary fix.
>
> … It appears to be udev. Somewhere along in its stupid detection it
> decides to process USB devices before sata ports, thusly randomly
> renaming the boot drive to something else in the process.
I don't understand.
Surely this is why it's correct to use UUIDs or volume labels?
A person shouldn't care what the kernel calls his hard-drives, nor in which order it enumerates its USB devices.
> What eventually fixed it was building USB as modules. (Another kludge!)
I don't understand why this is a kludge. I build everything I can as modules, so that no unneeded drivers are loaded.
Stroller.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-26 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-26 6:14 [gentoo-user] udev detection weirdness Daniel Frey
2016-05-26 13:39 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2016-05-26 13:58 ` Hans
2016-05-26 16:59 ` Stroller [this message]
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