On 5/5/2014 11:08 AM, H wrote: > Being a Centos newbie, I am not sure why Centos calls the first SSD sdb > and the second one in the Ultrabay sda? It would seem to me that the > first one, the one replacing the original harddisk, should be the main > one and be called sda but clearly there is something I don't understand. > In the BIOS the SSD replacing the harddisk has a higher boot order > priority then the SSD replacing the DVD-drive. the kernel pays zero attention to the things you've mentioned. it enumerates the IO controllers in an arbitrary order, and assigns the devices in the order it finds them > Suggestions? mount your volumes with labels rather than device names. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast