This one time, at band camp, Marcel Weber said: > Hi > > Since some weeks I'm having a strange problem on my SID box. This > computer has a scsi storage subsystem with two disks. On sda there's a > windows installation and on sdb the said Debian SID installation. > > The problem appears when I attach an USB storage device, before booting: > This makes the device name of the disks change: The USB device appears > as the first four scsi devices (sda up to sdd because it's a four slot > flash card reader) and the scsi disks become sde/sdf. This produces a > kernel panic, because the root filesystem cannot be found. When booting > without the USB Device, everything works as supposed. I'm using lilo as > boot manager. > > Now the question: Is there a sensible way to tell my system in which > order these scsi devices should appear, or is it just at random? If yes > this would solve my problem. You can try out persistent naming tricks with udev. I do not know all the details of this, but this is exactly the sort of thing udev is meant to address, as I understand it. Good luck, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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