Linux on more than one PC104 won't boot

Help!

I have a port of Debian Sarge running from compact flash on a PC104
board. Everything is great. But now my boss wants to support another
PC104 board that maps the compact flash to a different ide interface.
So first board the CF is on IDE0,1(/dev/hdb), the second board is
mapped to IDE1,0 (/dev/hdc).

How can I use the same distribution (same CF card) on both boards
without editing the boot=/dev/hdb1 and fstab entry's. There must be a
way to detect what drive is the first in the system (hdb or hdc) and
tell grub or fstab to use that instead.

If I could solve the fstab problem at least I could edit the boot
parameter in grub and be able to boot the CF card on a different PC
without first modifying the card.

thanks for your help.

David Tucker

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