Bug#265228: grub-installer: should be smart enough to guess that /dev/hdb is hd0 at boot time

[Felix Zielcke]

Hi,

I think 265228 and 486541 could be merged.
Both reports are because grub-legacy doestn't support UUIDs.
So this will be solved if you finally switch to grub2 by default.
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Felix Zielcke




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Bug#265228: grub-installer: should be smart enough to guess that /dev/hdb is hd0 at boot time

[Henry Jensen]

reassign 265228 grub-installer
retitle 265228 grub-installer: should be smart enough to guess that /dev/hdb is 
hd0 at boot time
submitter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks

I think the problem is located in grub-installer. When, in expert mode, grub 
ist told to install 
to /dev/hdb ist executes grub-install hd1. But it is a good guess, that 
/dev/hdb ist hd0 at boot 
time (otherwise the MBR will not be accessed at boot time). So grub-installer 
should guess or at 
least ask the user, if /dev/hdb is the first boot HD in the system. and modify 
/boot/grub/device.map.


Regards,
Henry



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