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Re: sata/scsi confusion at boot



On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 03:33:12PM -0700, Glenn English wrote:
> I want my computers to boot from the SCSI drive and mount the big     
> SATAs in /usr for video and audio work. When it boots, the BIOS       
> presents the SCSI to grub as (hd0), but by the time grub goes to load 
> the kernel (from /dev/sda), one of the SATAs is sda, and it looks     
> like the SCSI has become sdc. The installer put the grub loader in    
> the boot sector of what was (hd0) at the time, and I don't see any    
> way to specify any other drive.                                       

How grub names and finds drives is completely unrelated to how linux
does it.  If your problem is with grub's behavior, then /dev/sd? and
udev are definitely not involved.



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