[opensuse] boot after installation problem

Hi Folks,

I'm having a problem installing 10.3 x86_64 on a box with
many raid disk controllers and disks. It has two disks
mounted in the back that are supposed to be the system
disks, configured as a raid1 mirror. Alas, this disk
shows up after all the other disks, in this particular
case as /dev/sde instead of /dev/sda.

A full install goes well until the first boot. The boot
fails saying it can't find /dev/sde3 (the root partition).
It eventually drops into a limited sh shell running out
of ram.

This box worked ok when the system disk appeared as /dev/sdc.
I wonder if there is some bug about booting from disks too
far removed from /dev/sda?

I've got a call in to the manufacturer to see if there's
a way to have the system disks show up as /dev/sda, but
no word from them yet.

Anyone seen this behavior? The controllers are 3-Ware,
the disks SATA, if that matters.

Thanks,
Lew Wolfgang
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