[gentoo-user] Re: Can't find init due to inconsistent drive order

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-07-02, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s <caneko@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2013 9:45 PM, "Grant Edwards" <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:

>>> Those names depend only on the order in which devices are discovered,
>>> and that process has always been indeterminate.
>>
>> Really?  I've been running Linux on a lot of machines for 30 years --
>> often on machines with a half-dozen hard drives -- and I never saw
>> drive order change from one reboot to the next until today.  That's
>> quite a lucky streak.
>
> Since Linus started writing Linux in 1991 (22 years ago), I want to know
> which time machine did you use.

Doh! I meant 20 years.  The first time was just a typo, and then
somehow after reading my original post I did it again.

I started running Linux in 93 with a friend's Yggdrasil CD and a Sun
CD drive I borrowed from work.  I think that was on a 25MHz 486 with
4MB of RAM and two 30MB hard drives.

-- 
Grant