Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Grub Hard Disk Error
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 07:58:48
Message-Id: 20010805080949.1d6c3b0a.erichey2@home.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Grub Hard Disk Error by The Nelson's
1 On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:21:04 -0500 "The Nelson's" <taligent@×××××××××.com>
2 wrote:
3
4 > Using the bootdisk to install Grub worked fine. However, at boot it
5 > wanted
6 > to call my hard disk hd0. It seems strange that the install recognized
7 > it
8 > as hd1 - GRUB found the reiser file system there, but when booting
9 > normally,
10 > it recognized it as hd0.
11 >
12
13 Grub always numbers the drive's it actually finds on the ide interface
14 starting with 0. For example, on my system /dev/hda&b are CDROM, so
15 /dev/hdc&d are in grub terms hd0&1.
16
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18 Collins Richey
19 Denver Area
20 Gentoo_rc5 XFCE