Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order? | Date | Wed, 17 Jan 2001 03:12:22 -0700 (MST) |
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David Woodhouse writes: > adilger@turbolinux.com said: > > One reason why this may NOT ever make it into the kernel is that I > > know "kernel poking at devices" is really frowned upon. > > A possible alternative is to specify drives by serial number.
Same thing, really. You have to poke each drive to get the serial number. What if they are IDE or SCSI or FCAL or RAID array? Probably reading a block from a disk is safer than trying to find the drive serial number.
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