Boot Disk

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Dec 29 21:59:35 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 16:30 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: 
> > > 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

Where or how does one find EDD and DMI?
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