long standing aggravation

Clyde E. Kunkel clydekunkel7734 at cox.net
Thu Oct 22 01:24:01 UTC 2009


On 10/21/2009 05:50 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:24:52 -0400
> Gene Czarcinski wrote:
>
>> Can someone explain how anaconda figures out boot/disk order and is there some
>> guarantee that the algorithm will not change between Fedora releases?
>
> I can't answer any of your other questions, but because I have watched
> it over many releases, I can guarantee that the disk order is
> randomly changed in just about every release :-(.
>

So far with all of the incarnations of F12, and fresh installs of F10, 
F11, Centos and Omega, anaconda has ordered the disks on my test system 
per the bios ordering even tho they are not in order by letter. I.e, 4 
SATA disks (A..D) and 2 IDE (F, G).  In the bios I have them ordered F, 
G, A to D and this is the ordering anaconda has maintained.  Anaconda 
initally wanted to put /boot on sdf and I let it since it was the first 
bios disk.  Each test install of a different distro or version of Fedora 
gets its own boot sector and I just tell the boot loader dialogue to 
install in the first sector of the /boot partition.




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