Re: Regression - SATA disks behind USB ones on v4.8-rc1, breaking boot. [Re: Who reordered my disks (probably v4.8-rc1 problem)]

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sun Aug 14 2016 - 07:10:43 EST


Hi!

On Sun 2016-08-14 18:17:39, Tom Yan wrote:
> On 14 August 2016 at 18:07, Tom Yan <tom.ty89@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 14 August 2016 at 18:01, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Since SATA support was merged, certainly since v2.4, and from way
> >> before /dev/disk/by-id existed.
> >
> > I have no idea how "SATA before USB" had been done in the past (if it
> > was ever a thing in the kernel), but that has not been the case since
> > at least v3.0 AFAIR.

It is the case in v4.6. We had change hda->sda for SATA drives long
time ago, it was stable since that.

> > No, but you can always use root=PARTUUID=, that's built into the
> > kernel. (root=UUID= requires udev or so though).
>
> Silly me. root=UUID= has nothing to do with udev, but `blkid` in
> util-linux. At least that's how it's done in Arch/mkinitcpio.

I'd rather not mess with initrd, and initrd was not required in the
past.

kernel-parameters.txt only mentions UUID= in connection with
resume. Is the documentation correct?
Pavel
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