Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?
Quoted 22 lines · Matti Aarnio
Quoted 5 lines · Werner Almesberger
The only cases when you really need to know the name of a disk is when
- doing disk-level management, e.g. partitioning or creating file systems (*)
- adding a swap partition (sigh)
- telling your boot loader where to put its boot sector2.4.0 with devfs mounted at boot time into
/dev/Only thing missing is that here
/dev/scsi/host0/propably should be a symlink to something like/dev/bus/pci/BB/II.F...
Or perhaps/dev/scsi/BUS/BB/II.F/busN/targetT/lunL/partPbut mixing in ISA-bus controllers is somewhat tough..$ mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 on / type ext2 (rw) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part2 on /home type ext2 (rw) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 on /usr type ext2 (rw) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target2/lun0/part1 on /usr/src type ext2 (rw) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) I do, of course, use mounting with LABEL=
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This new style (which contains, hopefully, physical PCI location) mount device paths will failry easily handle question about which is where... And the partitions are PHYSICAL partition numbers, not some logical ones. That is true with
/dev/sdXPcase as well as with/dev/hdXPcase.
What is the difference between physical and logical partitions ? How does this solve the "I deleted hda5 and now the old hda6 became hda5"
problem ?
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What is the difference between physical and logical partitions ?
primary (what you call physical) partitions are partitions in their own right logical partitions are partitions within a special partition
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How does this solve the "I deleted hda5 and now the old hda6 became hda5" problem ?
It doesn't nothing can as the way that the pcbios extended partition works as a (linked?) list of partitions so removing one shuffles the rest up.
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