Boot Disk

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Dec 29 16:30:21 UTC 2011


> > which disk the initial load occurred from?  I did run dmidecode and found
> > nothing of value.

dmidecode is the wrong interface. EDD provides the drive to BIOS mapping
tables, DMI provides static configuration data.

> Your two hard drives are otherwise (I presume) exactly alike.

Just use the drive serial numbers for that - or the UUIDs of the
partitions - much easier and basically how Fedora itself does it.

Alan


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