UUIDs on drives

[Rashkae]

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.