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Something I noticed when installing gentoo on my machine, that would indicate that the Gentoo documentation is a bit wrong, in reference to it's explaination of |
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grub syntax. |
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The layout of my IDE drives are: |
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Primary IDE chain: |
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Master: 8GB HDD (Windows) |
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Slave: CD Writer |
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Secondary IDE chain: |
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Master: 45GB HDD (Linux) |
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hdc1: boot |
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hdc2: swap |
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hdc3: root |
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Slave: N/A |
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I invoke grub, as per the instructions and wanting to install it to the primary master, pointing to linux on the secondary master, I enter the command: |
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root (hd2,0) |
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expecting this to select hdc1, as the documentation describes.. it doesn't. It tells me that that partition doesn't exist. |
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Instead I have to use: root (hd1,0). |
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I worked this out, (assuming that grub just counts hard drives along the chain and numbers them sequentially, rather than the hda->hd0, hdc->hd2 mappings that |
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the docs indicate), newer users might not... documentation change? |
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