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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing...
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 07:08:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1fde5e9-78c1-364f-4df0-5db412f1fbd8@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200406062110.po46v7aeh4ckmavi@solfire>

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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-06 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-06  6:21 [gentoo-user] Quick question: Bootdevice nameing tuxic
2020-04-06  6:52 ` Dale
2020-04-06 13:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2020-04-06 14:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2020-04-06 14:08 ` Daniel Frey [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-06 14:13 gary worley
2020-04-06 14:24 ` Marc Joliet

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