Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > >> I don't think GRUB has >> any way to tell what drive it boots from relative to the rest of the >> system, so it assumes that the drive with the boot track is hd0. > > Interesting. I would consider that a bug, though.
Remember that GRUB is designed to work with a lot of systems including BSD, Windows, etc. It doesn't know what youo intend when you boot. C:\ is not always the first partition or on the first drive. -- Bruce After all, grub finds > all the drives and assigns them numbers (hd0), (hd1) etc. I would think > that it could use the same algorithm as does the software that assigns > sdX designations. I'm not sure what piece of software assigns "sda", > "sdb" etc, but SOME piece of software does that in a deterministic way. > > Also, I've read a pile of documentation on grub on the GNU website, and > found nothing about how grub assigns the numbers aside from stuff like > "/dev/sda -> (hd0). I think I'll contact the GNU folks about this. > > Alan > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
