Hello Mikkel, On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:10:17 -0600 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > wwp wrote: > > Hello Mikkel, > > > > > > On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:48:07 -0600 "Mikkel L. Ellertson" > > <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Dumb question - were you booting with the USB drives plugged in? > > [snip] > > > > Yes, as usually - this has never been a problem w/ FC5, /dev/sda was > > always the internal disk. > > > I wonder if this is caused by the F8 kernels treating everything as > a SCSI drive. Did you do the install with the USB drives plugged in? Yes, all my USB devices were plugged in and powered. > I could see the installer including the usb_storage module in the > initrd in that case. I believe it would then be included in later > initrds created when you install newer kernels. But I still don't > know why the USB drives would be scanned before the SATA drive. You > would think that the SATA driver would be SCSI controller 0, and the > USB drives SCSI controllers 1 and 2. :) And I insist, reminding that I get RANDOM order when I reboot. Sometimes the internal is /dev/sda, sometimes not. And, something that might be interesting: - the initrd of my current kernel (2.6.23.8-63) DOES contain module usb_storage - the initrd of previous kernel (2.6.23.1-49) does NOT contain usb_storage Both kernels installed using `yum update`. Regards, -- wwp
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