>I also had nearly the same problem when moving from FC5 kernel to a
>stock vanilla kernel : FC5 is heavily relying on modules, and my vanilla
>kernel was compiled with everything built-in and no modules.
>This is definitely changing the order in which drivers and disks are
>discovered
The order in which disks are discovered, is basically
(1) what module (let's take the "core kernel" as a module too) is loaded
first (core kernel always comes first)
(2) running order of the __init functions in a specific module;
running order mostly defined by linking order
>and resulted in drives changing devices :
>FC5 Vanilla
>/dev/sda <---> /dev/sdb
>/dev/sdb <---> /dev/sdc
>/dev/sdc <---> /dev/sda
>
>This is a real pain, though people will tell you that udev is supposed
>to take care of this... My problem was just that I _don't_ want udev
>on my machine...
If you don't want udev, make an initramfs, build your disk driver as
modules, and load them in the order you want your disks numbered.
udev or initramfs, you ought to choose at least one.
>So, check also this point...
-`J'
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