Booting problem

[Derek Broughton]

Keith Powell wrote:

> If I have the master drive plugged in when installing Ubuntu, the
> partitioner correctly recognises the slave as 'sdb'. However, if I have
> the master unplugged, it calls the slave 'sda'. In my 'un-expert'
> opinion, this is in conflict with what it should be.

Nope.  Linux makes no guarantees what the hardware will be called, and this
scenario looks perfectly normal to me.
> 
> So, I have installed Ubuntu with the master plugged in and it now works.
> 
> I expect, but am guessing here, that I could alternatively have
> installed Ubuntu with the other drive unplugged and edited grub/menu.lst
> to change sda to sdb.

Grub should never even mention sda or sdb.  That's why a default install
uses UUIDs.

-- 
derek