On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 15:09:28 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > I had this problem on my Intel motherboard, and found out you can > > disable booting from external drives. "Boot to removable devices" or > > similar in the BIOS. Failing that, changing the boot order so that the > > firewire/USB device is at the very end of the boot list may help your > > situation. > > The problem isn't that the BIOS is booting the wrong drive. The BIOS > is booting the correct drive, grub is starting, grub is loading the > correct kernel. When the _kernel_ runs it (sometimes) identifies disk > drives in the wrong order and tries to mount the root directory from > the wrong drive.
And the BIOS order can affect the order in which the kernel sees the
drives, so it is worth trying.
I'd go for the firewire-as-a-module approach and add the module
to /etc/conf.d/modules to make sure it is loaded ASAP. Yes, it is a
kludge, but it is the simplest solution from a practical POV.
--
Neil Bothwick
Processor: (n.) a device for converting sense to nonsense at the speed
of electricity, or (rarely) the reverse.
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