From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: It is not possible to boot from partitions on /dev/hdX (X>a) when there is no drive in /dev/hda. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): This problem has been on every RedHat Linux I ever tried. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 0.Install a drive to /dev/hda and install a RedHat Linux to it; 1.Move drive form /dev/hda to /dev/hdb; 2.Change the appropriate /etc/fstab, /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/lilo.conf settings from /dev/hda to /dev/hdb; 3.Set the BIOS to boot from IDE1 or "other devices"; 4.Try to boot the system; Actual Results: RedHat Linux is unable to start. Expected Results: System up and running as in case of drive being at /dev/hda. Additional info: Result is the same even if to try install RedHat Linux directly to /dev/hdb from scratch. Also, if to boot up the system from floppy and drive being at /dev/hdb, the df will report the partitions as /dev/hda.
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