How do I force the SATA drive to be /dev/sda when IDE drive is present?

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Wed Jun 18 08:10:21 UTC 2008


On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:12:28 -0700
reikred at gmail.com wrote:

> I have an F7 system that has both a SATA drive and occasionally an IDE
> drive  connected to it. The problem is that when the IDE drive is
> connected, the system will make IDE=/dev/sda and SATA=/dev/sdb, and 
> screw up my boot process.
> 
> Is there a kernel command parameter or other simple method to get
> around this problem?

For a modern install the installer/initrd should already be using labels
for this. The kernel itself supports "root=/dev/whatever" as a boot option
too.




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