Install question #2 - disk order and video mode

[Timothy Murphy]

Chris Snook wrote:

> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> The FC8 install seems to assign drive identifiers in some random order
>> instead of BIOS order. I thought that was fixed back around 2.6.17, but
>> it certainly isn't the case AFAIK, if I boot the rescue CD I get one set
>> of assignments (not BIOS order), and if I boot I get another. Needless
>> to say this makes getting a bootable install nearly impossible.
> 
> Device scanning is asynchronous now, and drives may come up in *any*
> order, potentially changing even across reboots even with no changes to
> software or hardware.  This is why we use labels and uuids.

Would that help when installing from CD, as Bill seemed to be asking about?

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