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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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

:-)  :-)