Bug#462488: kernel: Promise PDC40718-based SATA card -- port numbering problem
* maximilian attems:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:12:57AM -0800, Rich Wales wrote:
>>
>> Thus, /dev/sda may not necessarily be the same as the boot drive.
>> If, for instance, I have two SATA drives plugged into physically
>> labelled ports 1 and 2, the computer will try to boot off the drive
>> plugged into port #1 -- but Debian will consider that drive to be
>> /dev/sdb (and treat the drive plugged into port #2 as /dev/sda).
>>
> the kernel never guarantees boot ordering, usee UUID in fstab
> and boot args.
The installer doesn't put UUIDs in /etc/fstab, so there's still a bug
somewhere, isn't it?
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