Added IDE card, drive numbering screwed up

[Derek Broughton]

User Iam wrote:

> On 7/13/07, User Iam <vramnum10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 7/13/07, GyroTech <gyrotech at freakinabox.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > There should be a setting in the Bios  for that...
>> > >
>> > I didn't change anything on the motherboard (first boot device =
>> > primary IDE etc...), and the PCI card I have doesn't have anything I
>> > can get in to..
> 
> I found this on google.
> 
> key words  ide=reverse
> 
> 
> SOLUTION:
> After much Googling, I found that the solution is to use a kernel
> parameter "ide=reverse" in the /boot/grub/grub.conf file to force the
> kernel to load the ide controller drivers in reverse order from the way
> they are found on the PCI bus. (use "lspci" to see the order of your PCI
> devices on the bus)

OK, but that really isn't a solution.  Next time you change something, you
could find yourself with the same problem (and if you're anything like me,
you'll have to google for the solution again, because you won't remember
how you fixed it).

The solution is to make fstab and grub recognize your partitions using UUID
rather than /dev IDs.  
-- 
derek