Teach your distribution to identify the root file system by UUID, rather than by /dev filename.
~Andreas On 8/16/2010 10:32 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > Related question, how do you keep grub when there is a SATA drive from > not booting via the IDE drive? If I turn on my 2T external Sata drive > before booting off an internal IDE drive, the boot fails. Turn the SATA > drive on later though, no problem. In the bios I have said boot from > the IDE drive and grub comes up okay, but then it goes to the SATA drive > somehow (maybe how it orders the drives) and doesn't find the Linux > system. There has to be way to map the IDE drive as coming before any > SATA drive in grub. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
