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Re: grub assist needed



On Tue Jul 03, 2007 at 13:07:06 -0700, tony mollica wrote:

> Hello.  Looking for a grub assist to make my system boot the way I would
> like, hopefully without making the system un-bootable as a result.

  :)

> There is no BIOS setting to help decide which drive is first,
> second or otherwise.  I find no options for the si680a driver that would
> delay or change the order of the drive recognition.  I need a way to always
> have it boot from the same drive no matter what other disks loaded on
> the IDE channels.

  Have you considered using filesystem labels?  Something like 

    root=LABEL=root

> Any suggestions?

  There is a brief introduction here:

    http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/522

Steve
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