Re: during boot, how does grub decide from which disk to load the grub.config?

2005-03-26 Thread John Lumby
Peter Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 19:30 -0500, John Lumby wrote: What actually determines from which hd* grub will load its grub.config? Grub's device map and the BIOS are really the only parts that matter. What happens is this: 1) you decide to install grub 2) you put

Re: Grub Failure when HDD descriptor changes

2005-03-26 Thread John Lumby
Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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