On Thursday 24 of November 2005 17:31, maxim wexler wrote: > But what do I call it? hd0 and hd1 are taken.
It may well depend on your chipset configuration, number of actually connected drives and bios boot settings. On my board, there are 2 PATA and 1 SATA channels on the same controller. In linux kernel, PATA is hda and hdb, SATA is hdc, no matter what drives are actually connected. When i migrated my installation from PATA hda to SATA hdc, grub detected hda as hd0 and hdc as hd1 before, but once I removed parallel drive, SATA become hd0 in grub (but still hdc in linux), since it is first (boot) bios drive. So I needed to fix grub config to hd0 and change a root= kernel parameter to hdc, since grub insists hd0 should be hda even if there is no drive connected on PATA: root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.10 root=/dev/hdc1 Also, I did grub setup on SATA MBS from booted grub shell, not in linux, because what it sees is what it gets then. Hope this may help you. -- Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
