> When ever I boot, the harddrives are not booted in the wanted order (a > timing problem case), sio that the Debian drive is /dev/sdb and > Windows is /dev/sda, but I want /dev/sda = Linux and /dev/sdb > = Windows.
Any reason you need to care about `/dev/sdX` names? In almost all cases you can avoid this problem by referring to your disks (and partitions) via `/dev/disk/<SOMETHING>`. That's significantly more verbose, but if needed you can define shorter symlinks. > Whilst there si no problem with the mountpoints, as I ca use UUID in > /etc/ fstab, I would like to know, if it is possible, to force Debian, > to see the drives in the order, they are hardwired. I think if you wanted to really change it "the right way" would be to tell the kernel in which order it should probe them, or to give to the kernel a kind of "pre-allocation" of those names. IIRC there is such a mechanism (well, partially at least) for audio devices which I remember using to swap the order of audio devices between built-in and HDMI or something like that, but I can't remember reading anything like that disks. AFAIK the `/dev/disk/by-FOO/BAR` solution is simple and works well enough in practice. BTW, personally I stay away from UUIDs and use things like labels instead, but admittedly I don't know of any mechanism to name disks (as opposed to partitions). === Stefan
