John Summerfield wrote: > Karl Larsen wrote: >> I have two hard drives in my computer. I have this F7 on a IDE hard >> drive and while on this drive it is /dev/sda. No problem now but the >> second drive is a Serial Cable type and it shows up as /dev/sdf. No >> problem with that either. >> >> It all falls apart when I use the Serial Cable hard drive. It becomes >> /dev/sda and the IDE becomes /dev/sdb. >> I think the BIOS is doing this. Does anyone else have a similar >> problem? > > I think it's not the BIOS. Linux generally ignores the BIOS for disks. I'm not sure this is strictly true. I think grub decides which is hd(0), hd(1), etc, according to the BIOS. If you change the order of the disks in the BIOS I think this alters the way grub sees the disks.
