On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:26:16AM +0200, Gerhard Gedigk wrote: > > > > > I fought several battles with grub2 and udev. The number of partitions > > > and the sequence are something like a fingerprint so I recognize the hds > > > even if the sequence is scrambled. This happens regularly after 1 and 2 > > > starting with 1. My grub2 install boots several other os-es from other > > > hds. > > > > > > "1 and 2 ..." what? > > > My first hard disk always shows up as /dev/sda. My second hard disk shows as > /dev/sdb. The other disks arrive under changing devices. > Is your problematic 7.9 install on one of those two disks ? If it is, try copying the whole grub entry for it, giving it a different name in the menu so that you can identify which is which, and changing the root= in the copy from sdaX to sdbX or vice-versa.
Drives do move around as kernels change. Most people building LFS only have one drive, so not a problem for them. This is also why distros use UUIDs - but that needs the initrd stuff from BLFS and personally I have not yet tried that. ĸen -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
