jmerkey wrote:
Someone needs to fix SATA drive ordering in the kernel so it matches
GRUBs ordering, or perhaps GRUB needs fixing. I have run into
several situation where hd0,hd1 are in reverse order from what is
reported when the Intel PII drivers load from the kernel, making in
necessary to swap the two values in the grub config.
There's more to it than that. With PATA drives I see issues with order
as well, and they date back to the Redhat 7.x days, where the install
chose one order for the scsi drivers and the boot chose another. With
IDE the order in which drivers are loaded affects the drive naming.
It would be great to have some way to match drives with names, but there
doesn't seem to be a single solution for PATA, SATA, SCSI and hotplug.
Something like mounts using UUID of the filesystem, but for the drives.
I do use pluggable drives for backup, load modules for various
controllers on demand, etc, so I'm aware that the most reliable
solutions seem to involve either reduced flexibility, human intervention
at boot, or both.
--
-bill davidsen ([email protected])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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