Comment 68 for bug 218434

The method of setting the boot device as not removable described by Stewart and nyamap above worked well for my system with an Adaptec 5405 RAID controller, with the exception that I had to do this for the parent of the device with volume.mount_point = '/'. In my case both the root file system (with volume.mount_point = '/') on device 12, and swap on device 13, had a line in their hal-device listing:

info.parent ='/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_serial_SAdapter_mylabel_2E2B5983'

where the string after the = was the uid of device 14, which had the storage.removable property true until changed.