Re: Recent upgrade causes drive lettering scheme to alternate from hda to hde

2006-09-25 Thread Adam Rosi-Kessel
On Friday, 22 Sep 2006 09:10:22 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: >> I recently upgrade a perfectly functional sarge laptop to etch. It has >> one standard internal IDE hard drive. Now, about half the time it >> boots up as hda, and the other half the time it boots up as hde. After >> the initramfs stage,

Re: Recent upgrade causes drive lettering scheme to alternate from hda to hde

2006-09-22 Thread Adam Rosi-Kessel
Resending -- this didn't appear to go through properly the first time. Kevin Mark wrote: > > I recently upgrade a perfectly functional sarge laptop to etch. It has > > one standard internal IDE hard drive. Now, about half the time it boots > > up as hda, and the other half the time it boots up as

Re: Recent upgrade causes drive lettering scheme to alternate from hda to hde

2006-09-22 Thread Bob McGowan
I can't help with the why, but I may have a 'fix'. I had similar issues with a mixed ATA/SCSI system. The BIOS and Grub would see the controllers and disks in one order, the kernel in a different order. I fixed my problem by using the disk label based identification feature. This works for

Re: Re: Recent upgrade causes drive lettering scheme to alternate from hda to hde

2006-09-22 Thread Adam Rosi-Kessel
Kevin Mark wrote: > > I recently upgrade a perfectly functional sarge laptop to etch. It has > > one standard internal IDE hard drive. Now, about half the time it boots > > up as hda, and the other half the time it boots up as hde. After the > > initramfs stage, if the drive is identified as hde, i

Re: Recent upgrade causes drive lettering scheme to alternate from hda to hde

2006-09-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:41:29PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > I recently upgrade a perfectly functional sarge laptop to etch. It has > one standard internal IDE hard drive. Now, about half the time it boots > up as hda, and the other half the time it boots up as hde. After the > initramfs sta

Re: Recent upgrade causes drive lettering scheme to alternate from hda to hde

2006-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: I recently upgrade a perfectly functional sarge laptop to etch. It has one standard internal IDE hard drive. Now, about half the time it boots up as hda, and the other half the time it boots up as hde. After the initramfs stage, if the drive is identified as hde, it fails

Recent upgrade causes drive lettering scheme to alternate from hda to hde

2006-09-20 Thread Adam Rosi-Kessel
I recently upgrade a perfectly functional sarge laptop to etch. It has one standard internal IDE hard drive. Now, about half the time it boots up as hda, and the other half the time it boots up as hde. After the initramfs stage, if the drive is identified as hde, it fails to boot unless I create a