Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote:
>> As Mike wrote ( and Bruce mentioned, gptfdisk-0.8.6 )
>> So, if it were me, I would use gdisk to assign "Partition unique GUID"
>> (PARTUUID) to all those partitions and then change grub and fstab to
>> use PARTUUID notation rather than /dev/sdx for / and swap.
> For the records:
> We followed this hint and changed the partitions to gpt, on the flight,
> without damaging the system. We changed grub.cfg to partuuid (by the way,
> fstab did not accept it). As expected, the system now boots correct, either
> usb devices are connected or not.
>
> However, it still makes a difference if "usb storage" is included in the
> kernel as ' * ' or as a module. If as ' * ', the denomination sda,sdb is
> arbitrary, but without influence on the boot process.
That would bother me. I'd try to add a custom rule to udev to name the
dives consistently.
-- Bruce
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