On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:04:26 +0100
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 03 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've recently moved /boot from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd. Then I've
> > installed grub with
> > for i in /dev/hd{a,b,d}; do grub-install --recheck $i; done
>
> My knowledge of bash is less than rudimentary, therefore I am not
> sure what this does - can you please explain (in plain English). Did
> you only have /dev/hdd mounted at the time of installation? What
> else is connected to the controller that hdd is connected to?
> The above line is a short version of: grub-install --recheck /dev/hda grub-install --recheck /dev/hdb grub-install --recheck /dev/hdd --recheck was necessary because the old device map listed /dev/hdd as an optical drive. I installed grub on all devices because I wasn't sure which one is checked by the BIOS. Now I know I can tell the BIOS to look at /dev/hdd first but that doesn't help. At the time of installation the system was running with all devices mounted. The old /boot (/dev/hda1) was unmounted and the new /boot (/dev/hdd1) mounted. On the same controller there are two more HDDs (hda and hdb) and a DVD-burner (hdc). UDMA modes are set correctly by the BIOS, after boot everything works fine. There is also a floppy drive and several USB-devices (card reader).
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