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#1 2006-02-14 13:28:01

civ247
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Registered: 2005-08-05
Posts: 53

USB boot, detect correct / partition

I installed arch to my external hard drive which works fine.

The grub config point points root at /dev/sda1 and this is also in fstab to tell it to mount /dev/sda1 to /.

The problem is that when my pen drive is installed the external harddrive becomes sdb and i have to edit both these file to get a proper boot.

The same problem occurs when a pc has a sata hd - these are referred to as sda, sdb rather than hda, hdb.

How can i compensate for this so i dont have to edit grub & fstab everytime?

Ckearly distros than run off pendrives or even live cds can deal with these issues, does anyone have an idea how?

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