Re: How do I force the SATA drive to be /dev/sda when IDE drive is present?

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Shaw wrote:
> 2008/6/18 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> > > The kernel assigns SCSI device names in the order it finds them from
> > > searching the hardware.  That's usually the boot device first.  Check to see
> > > if you can change the boot order in your BIOS, that usually helps.
> > This is not going to help - the kernel does its own search, and does not
> > rely on the BIOS order. (Grub does.) You could change the initrd so it only
> > has the SATA drivers, so the SATA drive would be the first one found.
> >
> > Mikkel
>
> Let me know if my thought process gets off track, but if the BIOS
> points to the right boot device and grub listens to the BIOS that will
> at least get you to the initrd, right? From that point couldn't you
> specify the correct drive by label or UUID?
>
> Richard
That is correct. If you are using UUID or labels, the what drive is 
/dev/sda does not matter. Only Grub uses the BIOS designation.

Mikkel
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