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(14th Dec, 2013 06:02 AM)particleman Wrote:  I am using a usb key for / but when I connect my powered usb drive I think Xbian becomes confused and does not know which drive holds the / so it will not boot unless my powered usb drive which holds my movies is unplugged any idea how to fix that?

yes, sure.

always we refer to root device as /dev/sda1 (example), but this is only to make things not too complicated.
but XBian accepts also UUID or LABEL parameters as root device.

that means you can instead of root=/dev/sda1 use root=UUID=421423q4-adsfsef-s14123 …

you can get UUID and LABEL by running "sudo blkid" in terminal with drives connected. if your copy wasn't created unluckily with dd UUID is unique and by using it you won't get conflict anymore.

(UUID or LABEL is resolved during boot into actual block device (sda,mmc …)).

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(14th Dec, 2013 04:38 AM)mehlvogel Wrote:  The only "difference" or "anomality" I would guess relevant is that I have NFS shares mounted in my /etc/fstab.
I see the Pi requesting (and receiving) an IP from my DHCP, but after it freezes I am not able to ping (or connect using SSH).

post fstab and interfaces please and try with XBian clock (until I check the files).