On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:50:58PM -0300, maptex wrote: > Hi all, > I hava a linux system (2.6.18) configured to boot from ide (disk on 2.6.18 is _very_ old and unsupported, you know that, right? > chip) and mount > root filesystem from an usb pendrive. This is ok while the system > assign the same > device name to the pendrive (/dev/sdx) as configured on bootloader configuration > file (lilo.conf). Some times, when the system boot with other usb storage device > connected, the name assigned to the device with root filesystem is changed and > the system is unable to mount root filesystem. > I need to find a solution to identify the device and change system configuration > to mount root filesystem. > The system may have one or two usb storage devices connected and /etc/fstab > makes references to device names (/dev/sdx) and it is not possible to label the > others filesystems. > > As a solution I'm trying to swap device names, by modifying scripts in > initrd, but > I cant find how to change /proc/partitions to reflect changes (I also > need to change > /dev/disk/by-* links). Use the /dev/disk/by-label/ link and you will be fine, as you can control the label on your root device, right? Use that. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
