Drive Sequence and boot drive, with expansion SATA board
by linuxbird from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6HH4A)
With an old G41M motherboard, I have a system with drives going to the motherboard interface, and drives connected through an expansion board.
If I boot with a Slackware install USB, the drives on the expansion board are mounted "first", meaning they come up as sda, sdb, etc.
I would like for the drives on the motherboard to come up "first" and have those as sda, sdb, etc.
I know that I can edit the fstab and use UUID to control the assignment of drives with control of what partition goes where. However, with drives on the expansion board changing periodically, the administration of the UUIDs becomes a bit of a problem. I also understand that can reassign UUIDs to partitions, but again, I am trying to manage a large number of drives, and the administration becomes problematic.
Changing the "boot" order on the motherboard does not have an effect on this, and in fact the system apparently tries to boot off the first drive on the expansion board when drives are connected.
Any ideas? I would like the first SATA interface on the motherboard to be the one which the system boots from by default.
Edit: I am using LILO for the time being with this system.
If I boot with a Slackware install USB, the drives on the expansion board are mounted "first", meaning they come up as sda, sdb, etc.
I would like for the drives on the motherboard to come up "first" and have those as sda, sdb, etc.
I know that I can edit the fstab and use UUID to control the assignment of drives with control of what partition goes where. However, with drives on the expansion board changing periodically, the administration of the UUIDs becomes a bit of a problem. I also understand that can reassign UUIDs to partitions, but again, I am trying to manage a large number of drives, and the administration becomes problematic.
Changing the "boot" order on the motherboard does not have an effect on this, and in fact the system apparently tries to boot off the first drive on the expansion board when drives are connected.
Any ideas? I would like the first SATA interface on the motherboard to be the one which the system boots from by default.
Edit: I am using LILO for the time being with this system.