Same here. The system disk (should be sda) is connected to the motherboard IDE port. A secondary disk (should be sdb) is connected to a SATA controler on a PCI card. I need to pass kernel options to libata, because the 80c cable is not recognised, and the SATA controler is a VIA VT6421, to which I want to pass options as well. However, when the disks are not in the order I expect them to be, the wrong options are passed to the wrong ata channel, causing kernel panic or no boot waiting for root partition to come up in the worse case.
Similarly, when doing a clean install from the CD, the boot loader was installed on /dev/sda, which happens to be the SATA drive, whereas the system boots on the IDE drive (cause grub error 15 from a previous Linux installation). I had to disconnect the sata drive to resolve the ambiguity during install. Mathieu -- 10.04RC system boot random assignment of sda, sdb https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/569645 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
