RE: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

From: Bryan Henderson (hbryan@us.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 12:30:55 EST


>If we can truly go for label based mounting
>and lilo'ing this would solve the problem.

>From a layering point of view, it makes a lot more sense to
me for the label (or signature or whatever) for this purpose
to be in the partition table than inside the filesystem. The
parts of the system that assign devices their identities already
know about that part of the disk.

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