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On Tuesday 01 January 2008 16:00:51 BRM wrote: |
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> I got it working by setting up grub.conf to focus on hd0, while at the |
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> grub prompt I referred to it as hd1. That is, imho, just weird, and |
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> another reason why LILO wins out in my book as LILO matches Linux's device |
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> names pretty well. |
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I suggest that you create /boot/grub/device.map with the bootable devices |
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listed in the order in which the BIOS presents them to grub at boot time*. |
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This will cause the run-time grub to use them in the same order as the |
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boot-time grub. The grub manual tells you how to create and use this file. |
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Here's mine: |
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$ cat /boot/grub/device.map |
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(hd0) /dev/hda |
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(hd1) /dev/sda |
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(hd2) /dev/sdb |
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(hd3) /dev/sdc |
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(hd4) /dev/sdd |
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Note also that you can play various tunes on the boot-order theme by setting |
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values in your BIOS. In my case I can select IDE or SATA to boot first, and |
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separately I get a list of connected bootable devices to put in my |
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preferred order. That setting seems to override the first one, so it's the |
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only one I use nowadays. I think I have another setting as well, but I |
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don't want to reboot the machine just to find out. |
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You should be able to get realities to match by judicious use of these |
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settings. |
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* This is an advantage of grub's naming convention. If you interrupt the |
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boot sequence and use grub to show the partitions on each drive in turn |
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(hd0, hd1, ...), regardless of their interface types, you can thenceforward |
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be confident of whether, say, hda or sda is presented first. If you had to |
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specify each type separately, you still wouldn't know that. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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