On Dec 12, 2007 11:36 AM, wwp <subscript@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Use UUID's Luke!
