On 10/25/2012 04:49 PM, Wallak wrote:You are right, when we have a configuration with a lot of drvies and adapters SATA, old SCSI,.. etc. the order may change. But having the main SATA hard drive defined, as the BIOS boot device, behind external and removable USB drives is in my opinion a bug.And may lead to security issues (drives with the same label, etc...).I've a very annoying behavior with the linux-3.6.x kernels release, and
a monolithic configuration. The USB 2.0 drives are mapped first with
/dev/sda, /dev/sdb... devices, and than the SATA AHCI drives come after.
This is out of order with the BIOS configuration and breaks a program
like lilo. This is also annoying when we use a static partition mapping.
Linux-3.5 works fine. Where this bug come from ? Is this a patch to get
the old, and classical behavior ?
As you have discovered it's fragile to rely on /dev/sd* names since a BIOS update, kernel update, or motherboard replacement could conceivably cause them to change.
Better to use something like partition labels that you control and that don't change.
Chris