Bug report

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>>>>     I said that a bug report would be sent regarding the new F7 moving
>>>> partition designators. This is it:
>>>>
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=352181
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I hope the bug killers are cleverer than me,
>>> as I don't understand your bug:
>>> --------------------------------
>>> Description of problem:Partition designators change with changes in 
>>> hard drive use. I have 2 hard drives. When hd1 is booted the Linux 
>>> is /dev/sda. When hd2 is selected the Linux is /dev/sda.
>>> --------------------------------
>>>
>>> 1. What do you mean by "hd1 is booted", "hd2 is selected"?
>>> How exactly do you select hd2?
>>>
>>> 2. What do you mean by "the Linux"?
>>>
>>>   
>>    As you say I am a lot more involved than you are. You don't even 
>> know it happens I guess.
>
> Nobody knows how it happens because you didn't fill in the steps to 
> reproduce.  Does it take a bios setting change to make  this happen, 
> or will it happen if you keep all your /boot partitions on the same 
> primary drive with grub in the mbr (setting the kernel root to another 
> drive), or are you chainloading a 2nd grub install on the other drive?
>
> I'd expect the first method to keep things consistent other than when 
> the device name conventions change among kernel versions.
>
>
    I put the root and setup on the same thing, (hd5,3) which is disk 2. 
Disk 1 has root at (hd0,4) and setup at (hd0) and in the grub.conf it 
has a chainloader to disk 2.

    This all works fine. But when disk 1 is booted it is at /dev/sdax. 
When disk 2 is booted IT is /dev/sdax.

That is the problem.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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