Hello Tim, On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:24:38 +1030 Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mikkel: > >> were you booting with the USB drives plugged in? > > wwp: > > Yes, as usually - this has never been a problem w/ FC5, /dev/sda was > > always the internal disk. > > I, too, dislike the drive assignment shuffling. I really think that hda > ought to have been kept for IDE, sda for SCSI, and we should have used > some form of /dev/usb for USB. That way, you'd have clear and > unambiguous ways to address the hardware, where you expect to find it. > And you also have volume labelling for addressing some volume by name, > no matter where or how it's attached. > > If you boot with your USB drives connected, but never boot *from* the > USB ports, you could try altering your BIOS booting arrangements, so > that it doesn't include the USB ports, or they're fallback rather than > early choices. You'd expect, this way, that they're looked at later on, > and the other drive gets the first designator (/dev/sda). Sure! That still doesn't explain why the order of mounting (and of scsi discovering?) is shuffled - something not deterministic that sounds a bit weird when it's question of mounting / ;-). Well, I can live w/ all the possible workarounds (mounting by name, hal rules, play w/ BIOS boot order, etc.). Thanks for your help, Tim. Regards, -- wwp
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