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  • Re: [gentoo-user] biosdevname or equivalent for disks: did the order ch

    From Alan J. Wylie@21:1/5 to Larry the Plumber on Wed Sep 11 15:30:01 2024
    Larry the Plumber <dzjfqy7ioz@ol1y.com> writes:

    * It didn't boot. I fixed two things: changed the partition id of
    LUKSed swap from swap id to LVM id, to prevent systemd attempting to
    mount it at boot (and failing). Secondly, I checked the fstab and
    noticed all dev nodes were wrong (I have two SSD).

    See https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0a43155c-b56d-4f85-bb46-dce2a4e5af59@kernel.org/

    | My testlab kernel devel server isn't booting correctly on v6.11
    | branches (e.g. net-next at 6.11.0-rc5) I just confirmed this also
    | happens on your tree tag: v6.11-rc7.

    | The symptom/issue is that harddisk dev names (e.g /dev/sda, /dev/sdb,
    | /dev/sdc) gets reordered. I switched /etc/fstab to use UUID's instead
    | (which boots on v6.10) but on 6.11 it still cannot mount harddisks and
    | doesn't fully boot.

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  • From Larry the Plumber@21:1/5 to flzdjhmtax@wylie.me.uk on Tue Oct 8 13:10:01 2024
    [bottom-posting]

    On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 2:27 PM Alan J. Wylie <flzdjhmtax@wylie.me.uk> wrote:

    Larry the Plumber <dzjfqy7ioz@ol1y.com> writes:

    * It didn't boot. I fixed two things: changed the partition id of
    LUKSed swap from swap id to LVM id, to prevent systemd attempting to
    mount it at boot (and failing). Secondly, I checked the fstab and
    noticed all dev nodes were wrong (I have two SSD).

    See https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0a43155c-b56d-4f85-bb46-dce2a4e5af59@kernel.org/

    | My testlab kernel devel server isn't booting correctly on v6.11
    | branches (e.g. net-next at 6.11.0-rc5) I just confirmed this also
    | happens on your tree tag: v6.11-rc7.

    | The symptom/issue is that harddisk dev names (e.g /dev/sda, /dev/sdb,
    | /dev/sdc) gets reordered. I switched /etc/fstab to use UUID's instead
    | (which boots on v6.10) but on 6.11 it still cannot mount harddisks and
    | doesn't fully boot.


    Hi!
    Is it just me or they swapped again? (an unexpected electrical
    shutdown gave me further head-scratching)

    Thanks,
    Larry The Plumber

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  • From Alan J. Wylie@21:1/5 to Larry the Plumber on Tue Oct 8 13:30:01 2024
    Larry the Plumber <dzjfqy7ioz@ol1y.com> writes:

    Is it just me or they swapped again? (an unexpected electrical
    shutdown gave me further head-scratching)

    Are you using e.g. "/dev/sda1" in your grub configuration and fstab?

    Using UUIDs or block labels on your disks/partitions works around any randomness in the order in which the kernel sees devices.

    e.g.
    '''
    menuentry 'Linux' {
    echo 'Loading Linux ...'
    search --no-floppy --label --set=root frodoboot
    linux /vmlinuz root=LABEL=frodoroot ro
    initrd /initramfs.img
    }
    '''
    '''
    # blkid /dev/sda1
    /dev/sda1: LABEL="frodoboot" UUID="a779e4cf-405e-4e03-a272-e714ba17cd18" BLOCK_SIZE="1024" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="de7c8912-01"
    '''

    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/System#Filesystem_information


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