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Re: help with grub command sought

From Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.setup, comp.os.linux.portable
Subject Re: help with grub command sought
Date 2014-06-22 15:00 +0200
Organization Plouf !
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Charles T. Smith a écrit :
> 
> The thing is, I *am* using persistent names - that's what I meant with /
> dev/disk/by-id.  But if you look at those, e.g. with ls -l, you'll see 
> they're just symlinks to the /dev/sd* devices, which I guess are 
> determined by the kernel - then something else maps them to the /dev/disk/
> by-id names at a later time in the boot process...

The something is udev.

> What I'm observing is apparently that the *underlying* device special 
> file mapped to the usb controller is being re-established - but not the 
> persistent link.
> 
> The event I'm talking about is this power-down event or whatever it is.  
> I haven't pinned down exactly what it is.  I just went to lunch for 45 
> minutes or so, and the mapping stayed unchanged.  But sometimes, it 
> happens quickly...  I'm pretty sure it happens immediately if I close the 
> cover to my laptop.

This usually triggers some form of system suspend, and resume when you
open the cover again.

However what you describe here is rather different from what you wrote
in your initial post ("the disk won't normally boot") and does not seem
to have anything to do with grub.

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help with grub command sought "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2014-06-21 11:03 +0000
  Re: help with grub command sought "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2014-06-21 20:11 +0000
    Re: help with grub command sought "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2014-06-22 10:20 +0000
      Re: help with grub command sought Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-06-22 13:14 +0200
        Re: help with grub command sought "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2014-06-22 12:19 +0000
          Re: help with grub command sought Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2014-06-22 15:00 +0200
            Re: help with grub command sought "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2014-06-22 13:38 +0000
              Re: help with grub command sought Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2014-06-23 15:58 +1000
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