On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:27:51PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > It might be possible that the names sda to sdd were used for something > that wasn't an hard disk during the install (a card reader with 4 > different slots might be a good candidate). Then your system would > still boot properly with your old device.map because grub detected > that sde was the first hard disk, but then you wouldn't be able to > run update-grub because your first hard disk is sda now. Could you > check this in the installation log or by running the debian installer > again to the point where it detects all the disks?
You are exactly right! The machine has a 4 slot card reader (as do my collegues who experienced the exact same problem. Looking at the installer log this is exactly what happened. Attached is the relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog Dan
Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 6:0:0:1: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 6:0:0:2: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 6:0:0:3: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 300) Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 4 SControl 300) Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3250310AS 4.AD PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sde] 488281250 512-byte hardware sectors (250000 MB) Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sde] 488281250 512-byte hardware sectors (250000 MB) Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sde: sde1 sde2 sde3 Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST3250310AS 4.AD PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdf] 488281250 512-byte hardware sectors (250000 MB) Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdf] 488281250 512-byte hardware sectors (250000 MB) Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdf] Write Protect is off Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdf] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdf] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sdf: sdf1 Oct 3 16:43:24 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdf] Attached SCSI disk
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