On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 06:46 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > To make a grub boot floppy.. > > here is one I use without fail. > ... > > Johan Sch > > Thanks, Johan, the procedure you describe is what I have been doing to > create workable boot floppies. However, my questions remain > unanswered. My principle concern at this point is this: > > When I upgraded from debian woody to sarge, grub (both new and old > versions) began to map my drives incorrectly. My "work-around" has > been to change the root command to compensate for the mapping error: > > sda drive 0 root (hd0,0) > sdb drive 1 root (hd2,0) > sdc drive 2 root (hd1,0) > > Will this work-around cause me any problems?
Hard to say . sometimes stuf just works for months on end without problem . and then the next boot and you are in trouble. > I get the impression that grub is forced to guess at the drive > sequence, and so getting it wrong is only to be expected. > > Instead of using the root command, would I do better changing the map, > either the map file in /boot or placing a map command in the grub > menu? I tried doing both, but without any effect. > > Haines > *************** Here are some examples of mappings while I was running 3 HD's sometime ago. May be of some help to you. title windows xp root (hd2,0) map (hd0) (hd2) map (hd2) (hd0) makeactive chainloader +1 **** title windows 98 root (hd1,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 **** Goodluck -- Johan Sch Registered linux user #33034 May this be a good day for learning _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
