In Friday 24 April 2009, you wrote:

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:

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In <49F22C96.9010405@tlinx.org>, Linda Walsh wrote:

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* had/have working SuSE11.0 sys with 1 visible SAS-based disk that the OS had labeled "sda". I could tell it was labeled 'sda' by looking in the grub menu where it instructed linux to boot from sda3, and also by typing "fdisk -l". udev provides a way to generate device names based on persistent attributes of the detected devices rather rather the order they were found in. Even before udev was around, libblkid provided a means to locate filesystems based on persistent attributes, rather than device. Yes but at least the first stage of booting is typically handled by grub, and I don't remember seeing a solution to keeping the grub disk designations stable as drives come and go.

This is pretty much a fundamental BIOS limitation. If your system supports EFI, you should be able to use the 2.x version of GRUB and that combination may have alleviated the issue some. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/