[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-08 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Andrea, Andrea Conti wrote: Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 Try disabling CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC (Asynchronous SCSI scanning under SCSI options). While it is not a solution, this might somewhat reduce the randomness you

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Dale, Dale wrote: Jörg Schaible wrote: that approves my tests ... :-/ Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the wrong one. It seems there is also some timing involved regarding the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi Dale, Dale wrote: Jörg Schaible wrote: that approves my tests ... :-/ Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the wrong one. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:47:28 +0100, Jörg Schaible wrote: What really annoys me is, that I had no problems with this in kernels before 2.6.35 :-/ Have you tried diffing the configs to look for a potential cause? -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 12: Plastic glasses signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread pk
On 2011-01-07 10:34, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Another option would be to patch the kernel to either support Labels natively or to have it include a scan harddisks in following order: option which lists which harddisk-drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Changing boot device with 2.6.36

2011-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 07 January 2011 15:01:48 pk wrote: On 2011-01-07 10:34, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote: Another option would be to patch the kernel to either support Labels natively or to have it include a scan harddisks in following order: