From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ou1P2-0002vp-8U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:04:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19150E079E for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:04:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96584E0675 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywf7 with SMTP id 7so1425847ywf.40 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:51:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=icKnUtYsd5YDJGvPMpxelEkTaTwocL5C/qcLkIIU+ZQ=; b=ONZv7bYsdgZJbvxVjB0sHlK3HbZERSNZav8rVUGk4eNuckceJpoz0ZE/GRMw4XPgRt jXzZS91S0pcDD8KvUhhpLNUW8oDCF2LgF701aiX6YlRTblGzXQqYpma01WC2gVlInEF8 ypYEHRURa7uys5waN+0sVlFeDUKi1GY5x1zy0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=q7+X7wbIQ/5bNLE6XRdAXZUoQRaB+8sgUwXS5QT2qUDYSMQGxgS72z7KTkuPGFmRUa EQJCuV6BSfzRLdJoJ8T2KK40DKYN2ok0IriJq6tZA1+N/9sHy9l2pt43jMhHdyMea3qy zqIXwnLLk533a5BbybYUZBioIwt2NbcHKZGEs= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.18.12 with SMTP id 12mr426937anr.97.1284115872212; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.37.138 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Sep 2010 03:51:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C89BD8B.4020306@gmail.com> References: <4C89BD8B.4020306@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:51:11 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick From: Al To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 0fbb6a24-37ca-479a-8c02-cbf719defa34 X-Archives-Hash: e89c8c4da86eed8471a355b50b899383 > > If I give the root password, I can find no /dev/sda1. =A0However, mount s= hows > /dev/sda1 on /, and there *is* a /sys/block/sda folders, with a sda1 fold= er > in that as well. =A0It's almost like it had /dev/sda1, but then lost it > somehow. > > Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? =A0Any help would be > appreciated. This may be a problem with the order of disks. If there is a harddisk and a USB, which one is recognized as sda1? I guess that can even depend on the BIOS settings. Then there are differences between different versions of Grub (but you already manged the Grub setup). I came to the following solution for me to make things more easy: I put Grub always on the harddisk. I have a little linux partion only for the purpose to configure Grub. So it's unambiguously that the harddisk is the first disk and that Grub is on the first disk. Now I can freely experiment on all other partitions and disks. I never install a bootloader on those other partitions. Sure that doesn't work for a rescue system when the harddisk is broken. In that case I would use any live CD. Al