Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

From: Malahal Rao Naineni <naineni@sequent.com>
To: Venkateshr@ami.com (Venkatesh Ramamurthy)
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org ('linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ('linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'),
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ('Alan Cox')
Subject: Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:38:19 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101161738.f0GHcK214559@eng2.sequent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355693A51C0D211B55A00105ACCFE64E9518C@ATL_MS1> from "Venkatesh Ramamurthy" at Jan 16, 2001 09:49:05 AM PST

Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> I have one issue which requires fix from the linux kernel. 
> Initially i put a SCSI controller and install the OS on the drive connected
> to it. After installing the OS (on sda), the customer puts another SCSI
> controller. The BIOS for the first controller has BIOS enabled and for the
> second controller does not have the BIOS enabled. 
> 
> The linux loads the driver for the second controller first and assigns sda
> to it first , and the actual boot drive gets some sdX device node. 
> >From the lilo prompt we can override it with root=/dev/sdX to boot to the
> correct drive and controller, but for a end -user using these cards, this is
> no fun.
> 
> 
> Can the linux kernel be changed in such a way that kernel will look for the
> actual boot drive and re-order the drives so that mounting can go on in the
> right order.

Name slippage is a horrible thing. That should be fixed first. The O/S
should get the device names right for every boot.

Thanks, Malahal.
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