[Debian-eeepc-devel] eee 900. Disk seen as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc

[Luiz Eduardo Guaraldo]

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It's not quite normal, but there is nothing wrong with the hardware.

Some disk controllers does this issue... So using UUID resolves everything.

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Klaus Ade Johnstad escreveu:
> My Asus eee 900 running debian caused me some headaches.
>  
> Depending on whether a usbmouse (or any other usb device, like  
> webcamera turned on in bios) was attached, the disk would present 
> itself to grub as either /dev/sda, /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc, witch didn't 
> work very well since I had in menu.lst the line "root=/dev/sdb1".
> 
> I solved it by replacing /dev/sdb1 with the disk UUID, which I found 
> in /dev/disk/by-uuid/.
> 
> Using UUID in  /boot/grub/menu.lst, /etc/fstab and /etc/uswsusp.conf 
> solved all my problems, and I no longer need to remember to remove the 
> usbmouse when I start the machine.
> 
> Anybody else seen this behaviour?
> 
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