On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: >> When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like "/dev/sda"? > > That's done by 'udev' based on what BIOS tells it.
Hi Philip, Is this a true statement: Some people do not use udev. These people still have a /dev/sda. Therefore something other than udev is giving drives the name "/dev/sda". Thank you, Chris