Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754161AbWKGJxv (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 04:53:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754164AbWKGJxu (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 04:53:50 -0500 Received: from tag.witbe.net ([81.88.96.48]:5566 "EHLO tag.witbe.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754161AbWKGJxu (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 04:53:50 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Paul Rolland" To: "'Jan Engelhardt'" Cc: "'Marc Perkel'" , "'Chris Lalancette'" , "'Rafael J. Wysocki'" , Subject: RE: could not find filesystem /dev/root Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:52:55 +0100 Organization: AS2917.net Message-ID: <004001c70252$82702570$4b00a8c0@donald> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 Thread-Index: AccCTeH044QjMYmcTgqRrJ9Fip1lBgABBaGw Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1267 Lines: 34 Hello, > The order in which disks are discovered, is basically > (1) what module (let's take the "core kernel" as a module > too) is loaded first (core kernel always comes first) > (2) running order of the __init functions in a specific module; > running order mostly defined by linking order Yes... What is painful is that moving from a configuration with modules to a configuration without modules, this can change. > >and resulted in drives changing devices : > >FC5 Vanilla > >/dev/sda <---> /dev/sdb > >/dev/sdb <---> /dev/sdc > >/dev/sdc <---> /dev/sda > If you don't want udev, make an initramfs, build your disk driver as > modules, and load them in the order you want your disks numbered. > > udev or initramfs, you ought to choose at least one. Nope, you don't. I'm now using a kernel without modules for what's disk related, and unless people (read kernel developpers) change something in the init order, I'm now with a stable environment, without udev or initramfs. Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/