Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > I am not in Japan. :p Where then? Slightly off-topic, humn...
> 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). Ok, fair 'nuff. I'll have to go look at actual code before I say any more. >> 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? 3 of them had HPT controllers. 2, perhaps 3 had a combination of SCSI and IDE disks. Can't remember what went wrong with the last one.. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
