From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757733AbYFLIfZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:35:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754300AbYFLIfM (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:35:12 -0400 Received: from mx03.syneticon.net ([87.79.32.166]:1130 "EHLO mx03.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754299AbYFLIfK (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:35:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4850DFB4.5020205@wpkg.org> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:35:00 +0200 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080305) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: shawnxjin@gmail.com, LKML Subject: Re: Force a usb drive to be /dev/sda? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Is it possible to force a usb drive to be /dev/sda? I put an entire > linux system to a usb drive and want it boot a system with variable > sata disks. However the usb drive is always scanned as a last scsi > drive. Is there a reason why you can't use filesystem labels or UUIDs? -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org