From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:56:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:56:30 -0500 Received: from rcum.uni-mb.si ([164.8.2.10]:12037 "EHLO rcum.uni-mb.si") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:56:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:55:49 +0100 From: David Balazic Subject: Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order? To: Linux Kernel ML Cc: Matti Aarnio Message-id: <3A672015.B69F7E90@uni-mb.si> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (WinNT; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@zmailer.org) wrote : > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:22:22PM +0100, Werner Almesberger wrote: > > The only cases when you really need to know the name of a disk is when > > - doing disk-level management, e.g. partitioning or creating file > > systems (*) > > - adding a swap partition (sigh) > > - telling your boot loader where to put its boot sector > > 2.4.0 with devfs mounted at boot time into /dev/ > > Only thing missing is that here /dev/scsi/host0/ propably should be > a symlink to something like /dev/bus/pci/BB/II.F ... > Or perhaps /dev/scsi/BUS/BB/II.F/busN/targetT/lunL/partP > but mixing in ISA-bus controllers is somewhat tough.. > > $ mount > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 on / type ext2 (rw) > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part2 on /home type ext2 (rw) > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 on /usr type ext2 (rw) > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 on /usr/src type ext2 (rw) > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) > I do, of course, use mounting with LABEL= > > This new style (which contains, hopefully, physical PCI location) > mount device paths will failry easily handle question about which > is where... And the partitions are PHYSICAL partition numbers, > not some logical ones. That is true with /dev/sdXP case as well > as with /dev/hdXP case. What is the difference between physical and logical partitions ? How does this solve the "I deleted hda5 and now the old hda6 became hda5" problem ? -- David Balazic -------------- "Be excellent to each other." - Bill & Ted - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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/