Chris Snook wrote: > 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. Would that help when installing from CD, as Bill seemed to be asking about? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
