[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
Tom Potts wrote: > I had a machine with Suse10.1 installed on a PATA hard drive. > I've inserted a SATA drive and when installing Ubuntu I found I had to tell > the bios to use the SATA as the first hard drive to stop the Ubuntu (64bit > alternate) using the PATA drive swap first. > Now the Ubu works fine but I cant boot into Suse10.1 for the Ubu grub unless I > hit the bios to swap the drives around again, or edit all the suse menu.lst > drive references. > > Does anyone know of a way I can tell linux (in either setup) which order to > see the disks? > > Tom te tom te tom Not sure if it helps, but I think you could do with using UUID's. From what I understand, each partition has it's own unique UUID which is something like 20 characters. Ubuntu (at least the recent versions 7.04, 7.10, 8.04 I think) use UUID's in FSTAB to decide what to mount and where. I'm not sure exactly how to find out the UUID's of the Suse partitions but I'm sure a Google search will help. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html