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Old 06-20-2008, 11:04 PM   #1
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How do I keep sda from changing its name to sdb?

Is there a kernel option to hard code a harddrive onto a specific device name? I am using a 2.6 kernel with udev. Thank you!
 
Old 06-21-2008, 01:07 AM   #2
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udev rules

http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Customizing_UDEV

http://wiki.debian.org/udev

These posts are about Hard drive rules..

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rd+drive+rules
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Old 06-22-2008, 07:37 PM   #3
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Cool. Thank you. But will this have any effect on the order GRUB finds the hard drives and the "real_root" parameter?
 
Old 06-22-2008, 08:01 PM   #4
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You may want to look into defining drives by UUID instead of device name, the UUID never changes.

I know it is an Arch tutorial, but I don't see anything specific to Arch in there, the same principles should apply to Gentoo.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/..._device_naming
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