BIOS problem?

[John Summerfield]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> 
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>    I have two hard drives in my computer. I have this F7 on a IDE hard
>>> drive and while on this drive it is /dev/sda. No problem now but the
>>> second drive is a Serial Cable type and it shows up as /dev/sdf.  No
>>> problem with that either.
>>>
>>>    It all falls apart when I use the Serial Cable hard drive. It becomes
>>> /dev/sda and the IDE becomes /dev/sdb.
> 
>>>    I think the BIOS is doing this. Does anyone else have a similar
>>>    problem?
>> I think it's not the BIOS. Linux generally ignores the BIOS for disks.
                               ^^^^^
> 
> I'm not sure this is strictly true.
> I think grub decides which is hd(0), hd(1), etc, according to the BIOS.
           ^^^^
> If you change the order of the disks in the BIOS
> I think this alters the way grub sees the disks.

"grub" <> "Linux"

Karl was using Linux names, so I think he's not talking of grub.


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