Bug report added

[Karl Larsen]

    At this time F7 is booted and from that I used fdisk to find the 
hard drive with F7 64 bit. As you can see it finds all the partitions as 
/dev/sdf.


Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdf: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdf1               1        1000     8032468+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdf2            1001        1141     1132582+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdf3   *        1142        2500    10916167+  83  Linux
/dev/sdf4            2501       19457   136207102+   5  Extended
/dev/sdf5            2501        2585      682731   83  Linux

 mount -t ext3 /dev/sdf3 /fc4
[root at k5di ~]#

[root at k5di ~]# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5             39674192  11689048  25937260  32% /
tmpfs                   484484         0    484484   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda7             14832416   8021112   6057860  57% /home
/dev/sda6               108865     28993     74251  29% /boot
/dev/sdf3             10574036   3867712   6160516  39% /fc4
[root at k5di ~]#

Note the last entry in df. That is /dev/sdf3 mounted on this computer 
which is /dev/sda5.

    I used fdisk and mount and df, three tools to show you what a hard 
drive has. No one can say that /dev/sdf doesn't exist on my computer.

    Some say the /dev/sdf3 is just a designator of a partition on a hard 
drive. To this I say there is nothing else! I can mount the designator 
and I discover it is a partition.

    Next I must turn off this computer and come up with the rescue CD so 
that neither computer is boot up. In this case with fdisk I found both 
hard drives have changed. The hard drive that had been /dev/sdf is now 
dev/sda. The one which had been /dev/sda is now /dev/sdb. How did this 
happen?

    Finally I boot up the computer on /dev/sdf3 and it becomes /dev/sda. 
To my surprise I am booting it from /dev/sdb and not /dev/sdf. Here is 
what my grub.conf looks like.

 timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,5)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.fc7)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-91.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5  quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-91.fc7.img
title Fedora (2.6.22.7-85.fc7)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.7-85.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5  quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.22.7-85.fc7.img
title Fedora (2.6.22.5-76.fc7)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.5-76.fc7 ro root=/dev/sda5  quiet
        initrd /initrd-2.6.22.5-76.fc7.img
title Fedora f7-64
        rootnoverify (hd1,2)
        makeactive
        chainloader +1


    Now if it seems to you that I do not understand what is happening 
then I got the message across.


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
	Linux User
	#450462   http://counter.li.org.