Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

[Dr. Kelsey Hudson]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> "no", because you don't have to do it in the kernel. You can mount by
> uuid or label. For the root FS, you do this from an initrd. Problem
> solved.
> 
> The only cases when you really need to know the name of a disk is when
>  - doing disk-level management, e.g. partitioning or creating file
>    systems (*)
>  - adding a swap partition (sigh)
>  - telling your boot loader where to put its boot sector
> 
> (* in principle, you could even avoid this, if you have some means of
>    identifying a disk (e.g. via the uuid of a file system). However,
>    I would consider such a solution to be overly fragile.)

That's exactly my point...It doesn't need to be there; there are already
ways around it. They just need to be documented, that's all.

 Kelsey Hudson                                           [e-mail] 
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 Compendium Technologies, Inc                               [phone]
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