I want to add to this mail ..... ... your bios has probably an option which says "SCSI drives are first", and using the GRUB shell, it is useful and in some cases necessary to define a device map file. I have the same config, booting from SCSI and using additional an IDE disk.
My device map is for example ... (hd0) /dev/sda (hd1) /dev/sdb (hd2) /dev/hda and the file is searched under /boot/grub/device.map by default (otherwise you must it specify by an option of the GRUB shell). With this setup (BIOS: SCSI before IDE) and the device map file, you have a consistent view of the drives .... With friendly regards Christph P. Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Krahn) writes: > > > I installed a IDE drive to a system that boots from a SCSI disk. This > > causes GRUB to increment all SCSI disk numbers. Not exactly a bug, but I > > think GRUB should have seperate nomenclature for IDE/SCSI. (For example, > > in IRIX a disk is pci(0)scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)) > > The 'detailed' specification could be optional. There should at least be > > a flag for "SCSI drives are first". > > Sadly, GRUB uses the BIOS to get the drive list and I don't think there are > any ways to know wether a disk is scsi or ide... Moreover, your bios has > probably an option which says "SCSI drives are first". > -- > Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a > proper judge of it. > -- Oscar Wilde > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- ------------------------------------------------------- private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
