any way to control disk order?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 08:59 -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
> On 09/01/2011 09:56 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > My poor old system died, and I resurrected it by moving the
> > disks to an older system. For who knows what reason, the
> > kernel has decided to call the external USB drive I use for
> > backups /dev/sda (the old system called it /dev/sdc).
> >
> > My internal sata disks are being called /dev/sdb and
> > /dev/sdc.
> >
> > This screws with things like hddtemp where you have to
> > give it args like /dev/sda /dev/sdb.
> >
> > I don't suppose there is any available mechanism for
> > forcefully inducing the kernel to enumerate removable
> > drives last?
> 
> You could try fighting with udev rules to force the naming the
> way you want it, or just give hddtemp links in /dev/disk/by-id/
> instead of /dev/sda, etc.  Those links are based on device
> serial numbers.
> 
> -- 
> Bob Nichols     "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
>                  Do NOT delete it.
> 

Wouldn't changing the entries in grub.conf also do the trick
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