external USB hard drive—mounting , messing up boot

Jason Hall jayce at lug-nut.com
Wed Jul 19 11:49:49 MDT 2006


On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:17, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> The frustrating thing is that the/an external drive is not listed as  
> an option in the BIO boot order. And, even if it was, the option to  
> disable items does not exist; you can only change their priority.  
> Very frustrating.

But is it getting detected early and chaning your sd[a-z] order?  I've had 
that happen where a bios would put the external drive in an earlier order, so 
linux would see it as sda, instead of my SATA drive which normally showed up 
there.

-- 
Jayce^
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