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. Here's mine: $ cat /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/hda (hd1) /dev/sda (hd2) /dev/sdb (hd3) /dev/sdc (hd4) /dev/sdd Note also that you can play various tunes on the boot-order theme by setting values in your BIOS. In my case I can select IDE or SATA to boot first, and separately I get a list of connected bootable devices to put in my preferred order. That setting seems to override the first one, so it's the only one I use nowadays. I think I have another setting as well, but I don't want to reboot the machine just to find out. You should be able to get realities to match by judicious use of these settings. * 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. -- Rgds Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
