UUIDs on drives

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Thu Aug 14 18:52:26 UTC 2008


Derek Broughton wrote:
> ghe wrote:
> 
>> Then somebody had the brilliant idea of calling everything sd... 
> 
> No, somebody had the brilliant idea of using a single piece of code to
> handle block devices where there used to be many different implementations.
> 
>> It looks like Ubuntu's got fstab fixed and menu.lst sorta fixed (it
>> still refers to the BIOS' (hd0,1) -- don't know, but that may be a
>> problem with grub). 
> 
> "Feature"?  I'm not sure anybody's ever going to change Grub...
> 
> 

It would be great, however, if BIOS let you explicitly define the order
of devices, instead of just the first.  That's the next obvious step.




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