> Is there a method to the madness?
This is why we use disk labels or UUIDs instead of device names. With
changes like this in the kernel and especially with machines with
removable drives, or machines using fancy multipath storage,
it's nearly
impossible to reliably predict exactly what order the drives will be
found in.
So the solution is: just give the partitions names instead. Then it
doesn't matter if your FC6 root drive is sda1 or sdb1 or hdc1, it's
always LABEL=fc6_root. If you say "mount LABEL=fc6_root /fc6"
it will Do
The Right Thing.
So, in short, it doesn't matter how the two FC7 systems will
detect the
new drive, so long as you give it a useful label.
I have been trying to get a handle on how this works to see if
I can break it. Replacing the IDE drivers with something
radically different is playing with fire. I have a SCSI card
laying around somewhere I may put in the test machine just to
see what that does. (This is the fedora-test-list right?)
Bob Styma
Phoenix, AZ