On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:05 AM, David McNab <david(a)rebirthing.co.nz> wrote:
Before attempting to reboot, I booted off my old partition and mounted the new Ubuntu partition. On looking at the /boot/grub/menu.lst, it seems that Ubuntu has done a whole new disk addressing scheme, giving my SATA disk (connected to PCI SATA card) the address sda1, then my IDE0/0 drive the address sda2, IDE0/1 becomes sda3 and so forth.
Debian unstable changed to this scheme also about 12-18 months ago - it was a new kernel that did it, not debian per se. And Debian unstable remained broken for some time as udev didn't catch up with it. For quite a while you had to lock the drives down if you had more than one drive as sda and sdb would keep flipping over.... I think that the issue is more the Ubuntu installer - I have found it doesn't like multiple disks very much. Ian -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz