On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:28:15PM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:41:06AM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>> I *think* wedges are a solution to this problem but I do not know
>> anything about them.
>> 
>> Another solution is to rebuild a custom kernel and change its
>> configuration to force the detection of drives in a specific order.
>
>Yet another solution is to (ab)use raidframe autoconfig for this.
>Stick a raid label on each disk, define each as a single-device
>stripe, or as a mirror with a missing second half in case you might
>add one later, and raidctl -A yes them.  The volume names (raid0,
>raid1, raid2, etc) will stay with the drives, and you use those in
>fstab. raidctl -A root the one you want for root.
>
>It's somewhat weird and lame, but it works.

sounds like my best option yet. Thanks.

// George


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