Anaconda (or libata?) device detection order

[Alan Cox]

> installed. I can get around this by pointing grub.conf to the UUID of
> the disk to which it installed. However, I'm surprised that /dev/sda
> seems to be a SATA disk during installation, and a PATA disk during boot.
> 
> Any thoughts as to why this might be? What decides the device detection
> order? Is it libata or something else?

Module load order. That would imply that your different setups are
loading drivers in a different order which is moving the devices around.

It ought not to matter to grub because grub uses the BIOS interfaces and
the first hard disk the BIOS finds is what defines that interface  - at
least as far as finishing loadind grub and hunting for kernels .

Alan