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On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> michael@×××××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>> I test by rebooting and entering my bios settings, and then i set the |
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>> boot device to hd1 instead of hd0. Save and exit, and grub tells me |
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>> "Error 15: File not found". |
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> For grub, the (hd0) and (hd1) devices are the ordered in the same order that |
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> the BIOS puts them in, so if you are going to switch them around in the BIOS, |
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> you should set the entries in the grub.conf to (hd0,0) instead of (hd1,0). |
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> In otherwords, (hd0) is always "the disk currently being booted from". |
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> You can test this by editing the lines when grub comes up, and change kernel |
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> to be: |
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> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 |
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> -Richard |
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AHA! That sure sounds like my problem. I'll test this tonight. |
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So the mapping is NOT hard-coded: |
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hd0 = primary master |
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hd1 = primary slave |
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hd2 = secondary master |
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hd3 = secondary slave |
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but rather is the boot order I select? |
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Thank you so much for the rapid reply, |
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Michael |
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