disk devices in F9 interchanged

[Roderick Johnstone]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 03:08:41PM -0400, Will Woods wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 11:57 -0400, 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?
>> Yes, drive detection may change between alpha and beta. It could change
>> depending on the phase of the moon. 
>>
>> Device names are dynamically assigned and may change without warning or
>> reason. DO NOT RELY ON THEM STAYING THE SAME BECAUSE THEY WON'T.

We do kickstart installs where we have something like:
part / --onpart sda1 --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow
in the kickstart file.

How can we ensure that we are installing to the drive we expect?

>> This is why we use filesystem labels, UUIDs, etc.

I'd be happy if we could install to a partition with a known label but I 
dont think that's an option in kickstart.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Roderick Johnstone