External SCSI storage attached - Kernel panic

[Thomas Kaiser]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 10:47 +0800, Enn Pee wrote:
> So, the culprit is that Ubuntu recognises the external
> storage as /dev/sda once connected to system which is
> acting as boot device and failing half way.
> I changed the grub configuration to make /dev/sdb as
> boot device, attached the external storage and
> succesfully booted. But I don't think this is good way
> of running a server by tweaking system configuration
> files.
> 
> Any permanant solution for this ?
> 
> 
You can make two entries in /boot/grub/menu.lst. One which points the
root to /dev/sdb (default boot) and one which points the root
to /dev/sda. In case the external hd fails you can just boot with the
second entry (recovery mode). Thats one thing to use a bootloader (grub)
for.

Regards, Thomas
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