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On Wednesday 10 September 2008 00:22, Grant Sewell wrote: > 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 And for the lazy - how do I 'adjust' them at boot time - in Menu.lst for grub or elsewhere? Tom te tom te tom > > 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