Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

From: Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@gmx.de)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 11:40:56 EST

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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:

> we need some kind of signature being written in the drive, which the kernel
> will use for determining the boot drive and later re-order drives, if
> required.
>
> Is someone handling this already?

"mount by uuid"?

Amiga's Rigid Disk Block?

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