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From: "Anthony E. Caudel" <tony.caudel@sbcglobal.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT:  How does kernel determine drive order?
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:45:13 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <472F56A9.7050909@sbcglobal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9DEBA6E4-D206-46C6-A066-385688F991F2@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

Stroller wrote:
>
> On 5 Nov 2007, at 05:17, Jarry wrote:
>
>> Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
>>> How does the kernel (2.6.22) determine the order of SATA drives (sda,
>>> sdb, etc.) when it boots up?
>>
>> I just checked my computer, and sda is the drive plugged in
>> the first sata-port, and sdb the one in the second port
>> (according to the info in motherboard manual).
>>
>> Maybe it is something similar as with p-ata drives, where hda
>> is always the master drive on the first pata channel...
>
> What he said.
>
> But if you're having a problem with it, or want to change the driver
> order, then take a poke around in /etc/udev/rules.d/.
>
> Stroller.
But would this be relevant?  The kernel boot order is set at boot time,
long before udev comes up.

Tony

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-05 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-05  4:38 [gentoo-user] OT: How does kernel determine drive order? Anthony E. Caudel
2007-11-05  5:17 ` Jarry
2007-11-05 11:35   ` Stroller
2007-11-05 17:45     ` Anthony E. Caudel [this message]
2007-11-06  0:31       ` Stroller
2007-11-05 17:43   ` Anthony E. Caudel
2007-11-05 17:56     ` Albert Hopkins

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