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Submit this suggestion to bugs.gentoo.org ... I think a little more work |
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on how grub labels drives is in order, especially with scsi ide combos. |
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Sherman Boyd |
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Gentoo Docs Wrestla |
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(meekrob_AT_gentoo.org) |
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On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 02:12, MAL wrote: |
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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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> MAL |
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