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Re: Recent upgrade causes drive lettering scheme to alternate from hda to hde



On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:41:29PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> I recently upgrade a perfectly functional sarge laptop to etch. It has
> one standard internal IDE hard drive. Now, about half the time it boots
> up as hda, and the other half the time it boots up as hde. After the
> initramfs stage, if the drive is identified as hde, it fails to boot
> unless I create a symlink from /dev/hde2 to /dev/hda2. There seems to be
> no rhyme or reason to why the same drive sometimes appears as hda and
> sometimes as hde.
> 
> Any ideas what's going on?
Hi Adam,
Love the blog(webloyalty and u-haul). And could you provide more
hardware details? Does this happend with any live cd's, if you tried
any?
cheers,
Kev
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