how to change ordering of sda and sdb
Sorry if this is a repeat, I haven't seen my previous post show up.
I’m trying out linux on my home computer, and I've run in to a problem
with the debian installation. First a little background. My computer
has an asus board with two sata controllers, promise & via. The drive
connected to the promise controller contains windows, and the drive
connected to the via controller contains suse, mandrake, & debian. The
drive containing linux is in a removable drive that I can power down. My
procedure for booting windows is to turn off the removable drive
containing linux, to boot one of the linux distributions, I turn the
removable drive on. This works just fine for suse and mandrake, but for
that to work in debian, I have to disable the promise controller in
bios, otherwise I get a kernel panic as debian tries to mount the second
partition of the drive connected to the promise controller as the root
partition. In other words it sees the drive on the promise controller
as sda instead of sdb like the other distributions do. Is there an
argument I can pass to the kernel at boot that allows me to force which
drive will be seen as sda? I've tried searching but haven't come up
with anything.
Thanks
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