Re: Problem with random disks mount sequence

Hello Tim,


On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:24:38 +1030 Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mikkel:
were you booting with the USB drives plugged in?

wwp:
Yes, as usually - this has never been a problem w/ FC5, /dev/sda was
always the internal disk.

I, too, dislike the drive assignment shuffling. I really think that hda
ought to have been kept for IDE, sda for SCSI, and we should have used
some form of /dev/usb for USB. That way, you'd have clear and
unambiguous ways to address the hardware, where you expect to find it.
And you also have volume labelling for addressing some volume by name,
no matter where or how it's attached.

If you boot with your USB drives connected, but never boot *from* the
USB ports, you could try altering your BIOS booting arrangements, so
that it doesn't include the USB ports, or they're fallback rather than
early choices. You'd expect, this way, that they're looked at later on,
and the other drive gets the first designator (/dev/sda).

Sure! That still doesn't explain why the order of mounting (and of scsi
discovering?) is shuffled - something not deterministic that sounds a
bit weird when it's question of mounting / ;-). Well, I can live w/ all
the possible workarounds (mounting by name, hal rules, play w/ BIOS
boot order, etc.). Thanks for your help, Tim.


Regards,

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