Re: Install question #2 - disk order and video mode

[Chris Snook <csnook@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> The FC8 install seems to assign drive identifiers in some random order 
> instead of BIOS order. I thought that was fixed back around 2.6.17, but 
> it certainly isn't the case AFAIK, if I boot the rescue CD I get one set 
> of assignments (not BIOS order), and if I boot I get another. Needless 
> to say this makes getting a bootable install nearly impossible.

Device scanning is asynchronous now, and drives may come up in *any* 
order, potentially changing even across reboots even with no changes to 
software or hardware.  This is why we use labels and uuids.

-- Chris