[olug] Ubuntu drive assignment

[Dan Linder]

I'll second the GRUB+UUID solution - it should hold regardless of BIOS
re-ordering snafus...

Dan

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 21:17, Sam Tetherow <tetherow at shwisp.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> 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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