<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sieb, Glenn E (Glenn)</b> <<a href="mailto:sieb@lucent.com">sieb@lucent.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi everyone..<br><br>Running 2006.0, 2.6.15-r5 kernel<br><br>1U box, SATA boot drive (sda), and an attached USB drive (in theory, sdb) for on-site backup storage.<br><br>Problem is--if the USB drive is plugged into the system when it reboots, the *USB drive* comes up as sda. <br><br>Somehow I doubt changing /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 is going to fix this.<br><br>I doubt using udev rules is going to fix this, either--as, frankly, the system has to be able to boot in order to read them. <br><br>Is there any way of getting the USB drive to *not* mount as sda? Ever? :-\ :-/<br><br>Thanks in advance,<br>Best,<br>--Glenn<br><br>--<br>Glenn E. Sieb, MTS<br>Bell Laboratories<br><a href="mailto:sieb@lucent.com"> sieb@lucent.com</a><br>+1 732 949 5453<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br>You could try building USB suport as a module that would autoload during the auto loading modules phase, then you wouldn't have USB support right away and the sata drive should be sda all the time <br><br>Cynyr<br>