Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 171527
Installer loads sata-hostadapter module before mainboard adapter module
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:15 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Opera/9.00 (X11; Linux i686; U; de) Description of problem: I'm using 4 SATA harddisks (2 on ICH5 on motherboard, 2 on Silicon Image PCI hostadapter) Anaconda recognizes first the host adapter, then the adapter installed with the motherboard. When installing on the second disk on ICH5, this disk is labeled as sdd, not as sdb (as the order usually suggests). this makes GRUB labeling wrong Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.xx How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC on system with 4 hdds (2 on hostadapter) 2. use defaults 3. Additional info:
The module load order is based on what is presented by the PCI bus (using ACPI with 2.6 kernels). Unfortunately, x86 machines are not good about exporting any information about what boot devices are. If you do advanced boot loader configuration, you can change the disk order to match what the BIOS expects.