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--- Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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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 |
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> 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 |
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> device |
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> > names pretty well. |
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> I suggest that you create /boot/grub/device.map with the bootable |
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> devices |
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> listed in the order in which the BIOS presents them to grub at boot |
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> time*. |
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> This will cause the run-time grub to use them in the same order as |
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> the |
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> boot-time grub. The grub manual tells you how to create and use this |
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> file. |
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Thanks. Oddly, grub detects hda and fd0 as boot devices - there is no |
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floppy and hda does not have a partition marked for boot. Any how...at |
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least hd0 points to hdb now. |
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> * This is an advantage of grub's naming convention. If you interrupt |
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> the |
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> boot sequence and use grub to show the partitions on each drive in |
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> turn |
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> (hd0, hd1, ...), regardless of their interface types, you can |
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> thenceforward |
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> be confident of whether, say, hda or sda is presented first. If you |
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> had to |
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> specify each type separately, you still wouldn't know that. |
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>From one perspective yes. From other, more important povs, no. However, |
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this is not the place to go into that discussion. E-mail me off-line if |
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you want to discuss it. In either case... |
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Thanks for the helpful info with GRUB. |
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Ben |
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