On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 03:19:50PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I first thought it was my imagination, but I have had > two Dell Dimension computers change their boot drive order. I > don't know when it happens because they change to boot the hard > drive just after trying the floppy such that the CDROM is last. > This makes it hard to boot from any CDROM until the CMOS gets > changed back. > > As a computer user who is blind, this is annoying > because one must look at the screen to set things back as there > is no network interface or serial port or much of anything else > up when in BIOS setup mode. >
Perhaps you should try editing your /etc/fstab and mounting the devices by their UUIDs, rather than their /dev/ names. I'd go into more detail, but I have to head out; a quick Google search for "mounting by UUID" should suffice. -- http://fuzzydev.org/~pobega http://identi.ca/pobega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org