From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:38:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:38:49 -0500 Received: from gateway.sequent.com ([192.148.1.10]:45130 "EHLO gateway.sequent.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:38:40 -0500 From: Malahal Rao Naineni Message-Id: <200101161738.f0GHcK214559@eng2.sequent.com> Subject: Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order? To: Venkateshr@ami.com (Venkatesh Ramamurthy) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:38:19 -0800 (PST) Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org ('linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ('linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ('Alan Cox') In-Reply-To: <1355693A51C0D211B55A00105ACCFE64E9518C@ATL_MS1> from "Venkatesh Ramamurthy" at Jan 16, 2001 09:49:05 AM PST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote: > > Hi, > I have one issue which requires fix from the linux kernel. > Initially i put a SCSI controller and install the OS on the drive connected > to it. After installing the OS (on sda), the customer puts another SCSI > controller. The BIOS for the first controller has BIOS enabled and for the > second controller does not have the BIOS enabled. > > The linux loads the driver for the second controller first and assigns sda > to it first , and the actual boot drive gets some sdX device node. > >From the lilo prompt we can override it with root=/dev/sdX to boot to the > correct drive and controller, but for a end -user using these cards, this is > no fun. > > > Can the linux kernel be changed in such a way that kernel will look for the > actual boot drive and re-order the drives so that mounting can go on in the > right order. Name slippage is a horrible thing. That should be fixed first. The O/S should get the device names right for every boot. Thanks, Malahal. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/