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I have arch installed on my 40gb exterbal hard drive. The 'root' filesystem is defined as /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab.
The problem is that depending on a pcs config, this changes. For example if another pen drive is plugged in it may be ./dev/sda1 instead and boot will fail. The same happens if a SATA hard drive is installed - they register as /dev/sdx.
I get dumped to a command line where i have to remunt / rwx, edit fstab and reboot. This gets annoying, how do live cds, and other distros that boot from pen drives get around this?
Also on a differnet note i cant get a working xorg.conf, Xorg -config creates a file but when i use it all i get is a black screen with the default X cursor. I can run Xorg without xorg.conf but at the moment its not displaying enough colours- i can see lines on gradients.
I run Xfce4 and previously the problem went away when i uinstalled xorg-video-drivers, but after a comlete reinstall the problem persists.
Again how to pen drive based distros and live cds get around this?
Any ideas?
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Hi I have a problem on boot how did you solved it? (description of my problem is here http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=19434)
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You could create a udev rule, so your external HD will be mounted in the same place every time. Check the WIKI for more info.
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Device names in my case are creating when initrd loading and another problem with boot manager if you have several usb-keys or drives their names will change if you plug them in different usb hubs.
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