Partition Numbers

[Steven Farrier <webmaster@xke.com>]

I seems that my Partition Numbers all change after boot up.

On my hard drive these are my partitions

hda1 Windows
hda2 Debian /boot
hda3 Freebsd
   Freebsd "virtual partitions"
 	<hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8>
hda4 extended
	hda9  unused Linux partition
	hda10 Debian swap
	hda11 unused Linux Partition
	hda12 Debian /root

I use these numbers in lilo and fstab

and also if I hit df I get this
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda12             1748120   1177776    481544  71% /
/dev/hda2              1101272      4016   1041312   1% /boot
/dev/hda1              4210204   3513856    696348  84% /windows

But when I run dmesg I get this in partition check

hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
 hda3: <bsd: hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 >

so basicly the freebsd and logical numbers get switch.

I have to use these numbers to mount partitions or format partitions.

Does anyone know why the partitions numbers get "switched" like this.

I can work around this but I don't want my partition numbers changing around 
like this.

I have UFS read-only support and FreeBSD partition table support  and 
unixware support compiled into my kernel.