--- Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 January 2008 16:00:51 BRM wrote: > > I got it working by setting up grub.conf to focus on hd0, while at > the > > grub prompt I referred to it as hd1. That is, imho, just weird, and > > another reason why LILO wins out in my book as LILO matches Linux's > device > > names pretty well. > I suggest that you create /boot/grub/device.map with the bootable > devices > listed in the order in which the BIOS presents them to grub at boot > time*. > This will cause the run-time grub to use them in the same order as > the > boot-time grub. The grub manual tells you how to create and use this > file.
Thanks. Oddly, grub detects hda and fd0 as boot devices - there is no floppy and hda does not have a partition marked for boot. Any how...at least hd0 points to hdb now. > * This is an advantage of grub's naming convention. If you interrupt > the > boot sequence and use grub to show the partitions on each drive in > turn > (hd0, hd1, ...), regardless of their interface types, you can > thenceforward > be confident of whether, say, hda or sda is presented first. If you > had to > specify each type separately, you still wouldn't know that. >From one perspective yes. From other, more important povs, no. However, this is not the place to go into that discussion. E-mail me off-line if you want to discuss it. In either case... Thanks for the helpful info with GRUB. Ben -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
