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Rob Beard wrote: > 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 If you know the current Linux partition name (hdXY or sdXY) then it's relatively easy to find out what the UUID is. Simple go to: /dev/disks/by-uuid and you should find some symlinks to the actual device names. For example, on my desktop system I have: 70b4945e-eb7f-40cf-ad51-2325230d02b7 -> ../../sdb1 c27d80ae-3749-418a-9133-27b8a8903339 -> ../../sda1 d88fc3eb-34c7-4b7a-ae4c-f38a727cccc6 -> ../../sdb5 Please note that different partitions/filesystem types have different length UUIDs. Grant. -- 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