Uniform block device names

[HappyBasher]

Make it possible to use uniform block device names regardless of the type of hard disk storage used and make different hardware device groups obsolete.

Will be realized with symlinks on boot.

[HappyBasher]

• The disk naming scheme will be:
  • 1st disk /dev/disk0
  • 2nd disk /dev/disk1
  • ...
• The partition naming scheme will be:
  • 1st partition /dev/disk0p1
  • 2nd partition /dev/disk0p2
  • ...
• A nvme disk will be always the first disk.
• A removable disk will be always the last disk.
• Use the start.conf Dev definition as usual with the uniform device names.

[HappyBasher]

Sample start.conf:

[LINBO]
Group = uniform-disk
Cache = /dev/disk0p4
RootTimeout = 600
AutoPartition = no
AutoFormat = no
AutoInitCache = no
DownloadType = torrent
BackgroundFontColor = white
ConsoleFontColorStdout = lightgreen
ConsoleFontColorStderr = orange
KernelOptions = quiet splash # forcegrub
Locale = de-DE

[Partition]
Dev = /dev/disk0p1
Label = EFI
Size = 200M
Id = ef
FSType = vfat
Bootable = yes

[Partition]
Dev = /dev/disk0p2
Label = MSR
Size = 128M
Id = 0c01
FSType = 
Bootable = no

[Partition]
Dev = /dev/disk0p3
Label = WINDOWS
Size = 50G
Id = 7
FSType = ntfs
Bootable = no

[Partition]
Dev = /dev/disk0p4
Label = CACHE
Size = 40G
Id = 83
FSType = ext4
Bootable = no

[Partition]
Dev = /dev/disk0p5
Label = UBUNTU
Size = 
Id = 83
FSType = ext4
Bootable = no

[OS]
Name = Windows 10
Description = Windows 10 1903
IconName = win10.svg
BaseImage = win10-efi.qcow2
Root = /dev/disk0p3
Kernel = auto
Initrd = 
Append = 
StartEnabled = yes
SyncEnabled = yes
NewEnabled = yes
Autostart = no
AutostartTimeout = 5
DefaultAction = sync

[OS]
Name = Ubuntu
Description = Ubuntu 20.04
IconName = ubuntu.svg
BaseImage = focal-v1.0.qcow2
Root = /dev/disk0p5
Kernel = vmlinuz
Initrd = initrd.img
Append = ro splash
StartEnabled = yes
SyncEnabled = yes
NewEnabled = yes
Autostart = no
AutostartTimeout = 5
DefaultAction = sync

[HappyBasher]

Sample fdisk output:

Disk /dev/disk0: 120 GiB, 128849018880 bytes, 251658240 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 373F0BE6-7EAF-48F3-A9D4-4288B2C5FB1B

Device           Start       End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/disk0p1      2048    411647    409600  200M EFI System
/dev/disk0p2    411648    673791    262144  128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/disk0p3    673792 105531391 104857600   50G Microsoft basic data
/dev/disk0p4 105531392 189417471  83886080   40G Linux filesystem
/dev/disk0p5 189417472 251656191  62238720 29.7G Linux filesystem