disk devices in F9 interchanged

[Joachim Backes]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>> Joachim Backes wrote:
>>> I my actual F8, I have 2 disk devices: One Sata-Disk: /dev/sda, and 1 
>>> IDE-Disk: /dev/sdb.
>>> But in F9 Beta, these two disks seem to be interchanged (/dev/sda 
>>> <--> /dev/sdb). Is this true, and if yes, why?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>> Should drive detection change from alpha to beta? Does it really make 
>> any differnce?
>>
>> F9 Beta changed my drive sequence from 360GB ide (sda) + 3 160GB satas 
>> (sdb..d) to 3 160GB satas (sda..c) + 360GB ide (sdd).  Since I use LVs 
>> and labels, the only issue was the bios boot sequence which anaconda 
>> ignored and I fixed during boot configuration during install.
>>
>> F9 alpha, F8, unity and centos all saw the drive sequences the same 
>> and bios boot sequence was correct.
> 
> F9 beta should not have changed anything at all to do with your bios boot
> sequence... did you not install the bootloader to your MBR but instead to
> your partition?

I installed to the MBR.

The change in order once the kernel is loaded is easily
> understandable, but it should not effect how your machine reacts prior to
> the kernel loading.
> 


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