[PLUG] GRUB is too nosy

Tue Aug 17 05:45:14 UTC 2010

  Teach your distribution to identify the root file system by UUID, 
rather than by /dev filename.

~Andreas

On 8/16/2010 10:32 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote:
> Related question, how do you keep grub when there is a SATA drive from
> not booting via the IDE drive?  If I turn on my 2T external Sata drive
> before booting off an internal IDE drive, the boot fails.  Turn the SATA
> drive on later though, no problem.  In the bios I have said boot from
> the IDE drive and grub comes up okay, but then it goes to the SATA drive
> somehow (maybe how it orders the drives) and doesn't find the Linux
> system.  There has to be way to map the IDE drive as coming before any
> SATA drive in grub.
>
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