Hi guys, I have my driverdisk created and the files are on a USB pendrive. How do I make the USB pendrive /dev/sdb and not /dev/sda??? I am wanting the installation to take place on sda and the driver disk to be sdb? My driver disk is a network driver disk, r8168. Jerry
Jerry Geis wrote:> Hi guys, > > I have my driverdisk created and the files are on a USB pendrive. > How do I make the USB pendrive /dev/sdb and not /dev/sda??? > > I am wanting the installation to take place on sda and the driver disk > to be sdb?Try adjusting the IRQ settings in the bios so the disk controller has a lower IRQ than the USB controller? nate
nate wrote:> Jerry Geis wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> >> I have my driverdisk created and the files are on a USB pendrive. >> How do I make the USB pendrive /dev/sdb and not /dev/sda??? >> >> I am wanting the installation to take place on sda and the driver disk >> to be sdb? >> > > Try adjusting the IRQ settings in the bios so the disk > controller has a lower IRQ than the USB controller? > >it has nothing to do with the IRQ #, and everything to do with the PCI Bus Enumeration Order. and, linux''s method of naming storage devices can be a real pain sometimes.