On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, maptex wrote: > I have an appliance booting 2.4 from flash drive (/dev/hda1) > wirh a usb storage device mapped as /dev/sda. > I need to boot this appliance using a pendrive with kernel > 2.6 and a new root filesystem on pendrive. the storage device > must be the same (/dev/sda) on both running systems. > Configuring the boot program (lilo) to boot new kernel image > and mount root filesystem from pendrive, result that the > troot fs is at /dev/sdb (mass storage at /dev/sda). The problem > i found is that when booting from pendrive, the usb mass storage > is recognized as /dev/sdb and the pendrive as /dev/sda, this makes > it impossible to mont root fs, as it is configured to be /dev/sdb, that > is not the pendrive. > > Any ideas on how to direct the kernel to map usb devices on 2.6 > the same as in 2.4? The best solution is to use a filesystem label to identify the drives, instead of a device name. Then it won't matter what names the kernel assigns to your drives; the right one will always be used for the right purpose. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
