Fedora 14 alpha installation scrambles disk ids

[cornel panceac]

2010/8/31 Gerry Tool <gerry at thetoolshed.us>

> I have been trying to install F14 alpha.  When I do, the hard drives are
> not identified as they have been in the past.  I have two hard drives, one
> with 233GB and one with 149GB.  l have a number of partitions on each drive
> with operating systems on them.  The 233GB has always been identified as hd0
> in the past.  F14 alpha insists it is hd1 with the 149GB being hd0.  The dev
> ids are also messed up.  the 233GB has always been sda.  Now, F14 evidently
> starts the sd numbers with one of the USB devices.  I have a multi-card
> reader hard-wired inside the box, and it is apparently labelling its
> channels as sda - sdd.  I have two external USB drives, which until I
> unplugged them were being identified as sde, sdf, moving the first (formerly
> second) harddrive up to sdg and the old sda to sdh.
>
> If I let the installation proceed, it seems to succeed, but I can not find
> a way to get the F14 alpha system to boot using my long-standing boot loader
> setup controlled by my current F13 partition.  I have tried
>
> title Fedora 14 alpha
>     rootnoverify (hd0,2)
>     chainloader +1
>
> using a variety of (hdx,y) attempts, and have also tried several variations
> of the grub.conf file in the new F14 alpha configuration.
>
> How can I tame this mess?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gerry Tool
>
> here's what they told me (repeatedly):

"

As mentioned in other bug reports, this isn't really a bug.  There's no way for
the drive order to be consistently detected.

"

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458138

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