From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Wallak <wallak@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linix-3.6.3 sda, sdb drives in reverse order (with a USB 2.0 drives and a monolithic kernel configuration)
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:11:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5089C70B.1020007@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5089C20E.4090707@free.fr>
On 10/25/2012 04:49 PM, Wallak wrote:
> I've a very annoying behavior with the linux-3.6.x kernels release, and
> a monolithic configuration. The USB 2.0 drives are mapped first with
> /dev/sda, /dev/sdb... devices, and than the SATA AHCI drives come after.
> This is out of order with the BIOS configuration and breaks a program
> like lilo. This is also annoying when we use a static partition mapping.
>
> Linux-3.5 works fine. Where this bug come from ? Is this a patch to get
> the old, and classical behavior ?
As you have discovered it's fragile to rely on /dev/sd* names since a
BIOS update, kernel update, or motherboard replacement could conceivably
cause them to change.
Better to use something like partition labels that you control and that
don't change.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-25 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-25 22:49 Linix-3.6.3 sda, sdb drives in reverse order (with a USB 2.0 drives and a monolithic kernel configuration) Wallak
2012-10-25 23:11 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2012-10-26 19:43 ` Wallak
2012-10-26 20:21 ` Chris Friesen
2012-10-26 23:57 ` Wallak
2012-10-28 3:17 ` Wallak
2012-10-28 3:22 ` Andi Kleen
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