On Tuesday 22 March 2005 09:35 pm, Molle Bestefich wrote: > Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > As grub-install says, it is just a guess. In reality, it works in 99.99% > > machines. > > If this was Japan, I'd probably have my head chopped of for being > insolent by now.
I am not in Japan. :p The reason why it works in 99.99% is very simple: Even if the device mapping is wrong, GRUB boots up correctly if it is installed into the same drive as stage2. This is because GRUB receives a drive number dynamically at boot time, if it is the same drive. And, the guessing process does a good job as long as the user does not change a BIOS setting and have usual devices (such as IDE disks). > But, uhm, is that not just a number that you've pulled out of your hat? Both yes and no. If GRUB works in most environments, in particular, in non-technical users' environments, I don't feel worried too much. This may not mean that I don't care at all, though. > It's practically never worked for me (as in "ever!"), on a number of > different machines. > Goes both for boxes where I've setup the hardware and boxes where I > haven't. > > I have one machine where it's worked, and I've tried on at least 7. You are very unlucky... What kind of hardware have you ever used? Always HPT devices? Okuji _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
