[gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

[gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

[tuxic]

Hi,

Currentlu my newly created system is installed on a harrdisk, which
sit in a docking station connect via USB to my PC.

The system is intended to be complete in the sense, that can
boot bu itsself without accessing any other storage device.

What is the most common behaviour here:
If I change to boot sequence in the BIOS to boot the
harddisk from the docking station...will it become /dev/sda ?

Fstab depends on this...

Cheers!
Meino

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

[Dale]

tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currentlu my newly created system is installed on a harrdisk, which
> sit in a docking station connect via USB to my PC.
>
> The system is intended to be complete in the sense, that can
> boot bu itsself without accessing any other storage device.
>
> What is the most common behaviour here:
> If I change to boot sequence in the BIOS to boot the
> harddisk from the docking station...will it become /dev/sda ?
>
> Fstab depends on this...
>
> Cheers!
> Meino

Have you ever considered using either LABELS or UUIDs in fstab?  I use
LABELS for most everything here.  To be honest tho, LABELS can be
duplicated in certain situations.  UUIDs are much less likely to have
that happen and are the better choice.  Using either of those means it
doesn't matter how things are connected, it should still work.  If you
use grub2, I think it uses UUIDs too.  I'm not certain but I think it
does.  If it does, booting won't be a problem either.  Someone correct
me if I'm wrong on that tho.

Just a thought. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

[Mark Knecht]

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On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 11:21 PM <tuxic@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Currentlu my newly created system is installed on a harrdisk, which
> sit in a docking station connect via USB to my PC.
>
> The system is intended to be complete in the sense, that can
> boot bu itsself without accessing any other storage device.
>
> What is the most common behaviour here:
> If I change to boot sequence in the BIOS to boot the
> harddisk from the docking station...will it become /dev/sda ?
>

It _might_

> Fstab depends on this...
>

With partitions labeled (with names or UUIDs) fstab will be happy

Good luck,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

[Daniel Frey]

On 4/5/20 11:21 PM, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currentlu my newly created system is installed on a harrdisk, which
> sit in a docking station connect via USB to my PC.
> 
> The system is intended to be complete in the sense, that can
> boot bu itsself without accessing any other storage device.
> 
> What is the most common behaviour here:
> If I change to boot sequence in the BIOS to boot the
> harddisk from the docking station...will it become /dev/sda ?
> 
> Fstab depends on this...
> 

It's not supposed to, but in my direct experience, it can rearrange the 
naming of the boot devices.

I had to use PARTUUID in fstab/grub.cfg to get around this problem.

Dan

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

[gary worley]

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Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...

[Marc Joliet]

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I'm assuming your subscription to this mailing list was unintentional, so you
should just send an email to gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org.

Am Montag, 6. April 2020, 16:13:16 CEST schrieb gary worley:
> Hi
> I keep getting a load of messages daily from this gentoo group. I must have
> pressed something anyway do you know how I can stop getting all these
> messages. Cheers
> Gary
>
> --
> Sent from my Android phone with mail.com Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> On 06/04/2020, 15:09 Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/5/20 11:21 PM, tuxic@posteo.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Currentlu my newly created system is installed on a harrdisk, which
> > sit in a docking station connect via USB to my PC.
> >
> > The system is intended to be complete in the sense, that can
> > boot bu itsself without accessing any other storage device.
> >
> > What is the most common behaviour here:
> > If I change to boot sequence in the BIOS to boot the
> > harddisk from the docking station...will it become /dev/sda ?
> >
> > Fstab depends on this...
>
> It's not supposed to, but in my direct experience, it can rearrange the
> naming of the boot devices.
>
> I had to use PARTUUID in fstab/grub.cfg to get around this problem.
>
> Dan


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