[olug] Ubuntu drive assignment

[Sam Tetherow]

Post bootstrap you can assign drives using udev

Pre bootstrap you can fiddle in bios

grub remap drive order from bios as well.

grub will also allow you to pass a uuid to the kernel for the root
partition.

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Sam Tetherow


On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 20:38 -0500, Jordan Fox wrote:
> Sorry for not finding the answer yet on my own, and possibly sending
> the email before I've done another couple hours of research...  I just
> updated from Xubuntu 10.04 to 10.10.  In the process, ubuntu is now
> detecting my main boot drive as /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sda... after
> updating my /etc/fstab file to use all UUIDs instead of drive letter
> assignments I can boot into the new kernel (I was able to boot into an
> old kernel which properly detects my drive letters - which made the
> problem easy to discover and fix with the UUIDs).  /dev/sda isn't
> assigned to any drive as far as I can tell (fdisk won't recognize it
> as a device).  At this point, it's not really an issue after fixing
> the above, but it is annoying.  Having used Ubuntu for the past
> several years, my command line fu isn't what it used to be when I ran
> Gentoo.  Plus, I don't know much about Upstart or Grub2.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas.  I think I remember seeing a similar thread in
> olug a number of months back.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jordan
> 
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