disk devices in F9 interchanged

[Roderick Johnstone]

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 01:49:02PM +0000, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> There's a syntax for using "biosdisks" for this, which uses unique
> labels in the master boot records of the disks to distinguish one disk
> from another, and lets you be sure you're installing onto the disk
> that the BIOS will boot from.
> 
Thanks Matt. Any idea how to find out what these unique labels are?

Roderick