On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:44:47AM +1200, Greg Trounson wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 10:45:28AM +1200, Greg Trounson wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>Is there a way to rebuild the initrd to tell it to load sata drivers > >>first, or some flag to pass to the kernel to force the first hard disk to > >>sda? > >> > >instead of using /dev/sda or /dev/sde use UUID notation. > > Thanks for the idea. Unfortunately that notation is only good if the > hardware does not change. If we dd that disk to another one it won't work. > Also a number of system tools I believe are hard-coded to use explicit > device nodes, which is why I need sda to be, well, sda. Then there are 2 more: by-id and disk labels. ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/
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