Re: Is it possble to use /dev/disk/by-id/ in grub.conf?

[Aniruddha <mailing_list@orange.nl>]

On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 12:35 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> I believe disk IDs are not supported yet.  If you describe your problem
> in more details, it may motivate somebody to add disk ID support.  Or
> perhaps you are missing a simple solution possible with the current
> code.

Thanks for your quick response. The problem is that udev keeps changing my harddrive names 
at each boot. Normally my root partition resides on /dev/sdc2. However with each reboot 
this name changes (the last three boots it changed from /dev/sdb2 to /dev/sdf2 to /dev/sdc2). 

I solved this partially by changing the /dev/sdc2 entry in fstab with a /dev/disk/by-id/my_device_id
entry. Unfortunately grub has still /dev/sdc2 configured as root partition. This means I have to guess every
boot which partition-name the root partition resides. I do this by entering devices names (after 
the error message that grub couldn't find my root partition). I start with /dev/sda2 trying each letter 
(sdb2, sdc2, sdd2) until I find the root partition.

In order to solve this problem I would like to set the /dev/disk/by-id/ parameter in my grub.conf.
I hope that explains the problem clearly. Thanks in advance!

Regards,

Aniruddha