Bill Barry wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> Andreas Turriff wrote: >> >>> Teach your distribution to identify the root file system by UUID, >>> rather than by /dev filename. >>> >>> >> Is that the problem with not-so-open SuSE? >> >> We wanted to use SuSE for some control systems but were unable to make a >> replacement disk on a computer back at the office and get it to boot >> when it got to the field (on a computer other than the one the disk was >> created on). >> Wayne >> >> >> > It sounds more like a problem with the grub configuration. If you take a > disk out of one computer and put it into another computer then it can appear > to be a different device on the other machine (what was /dev/sda is now > /dev/sdc or ...). The more modern GRUBs get around this problem by using > UUIDs like > UUID=e0dcbbf3-a4fa-4e94-9ec0-c0466aa6fb9d > to identify the disk instead of device descriptions like /dev/sda. Does > the grub on your replacement disk use UUIDs? > Maybe you can tell me. After a SuSE screen to choose what mode to boot, Open SuSE 11.1 Open SuSE 11.1 (Failsafe) etc...
it starts booting, switches to a screen with a "progress bar". The progress bar is stuck on the left side and after a couple seconds, a console type black and white screen appears with the last lines reading: Could not find /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD800JB-00JJC0_WD-WMAM9CUM7063-part2. Want me to fall back to /dev/sda2? (Y/n) Obviously it found the disk, the only disk on the machines in both cases, and loaded some sort of boot menu. Why it could (would) not find (mount) the / partition seems to me to be the result of some sort of over complication. I have been using Linux since 1995 and OpenSuSE 11.1 is the first distribution I have encountered that would only boot on the machine it was originally installed on. Don't spend a lot of time on this, we went back to our original distribution and are happy. But I am curious, is this an example of UUID? > Also, when you test the replacement disk at the office is it the only one in > the machine? Yes. Thanks, Wayne _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
