SATA boot whish for FC3

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 11:06 +0200, Bjorn Andersen wrote:
> It would be a god idea to have Anaconda detect what primary bootdevice
> from the bios. (like SuSE)

Unfortunately, there isn't really a standard and reliable way of doing
this until BIOS manufacturers (reliably) implement EDD 3.0.

At the same time, there's the beginning of implementing some ability to
try and do a better job of guessing based on reading a field from the
MBR that's can contain a fingerprint for the disk both in real mode and
saving it in the kernel and then checking that against what I later get.
Some developers at Dell have helpfully provided the first bits of this
and it will just require a little bit more work on my part to get this
working once I return from OLS.  Unfortunately, it still won't be
guaranteed and there will still be cases where the user has to
intervene :(

Jeremy