Install question #2 - disk order and video mode
Chris Snook
csnook at redhat.com
Tue Mar 11 20:57:20 UTC 2008
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
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