On 11/30/05, Jaroslaw Swierczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today I installed Arch from the 0.7.1-pre1 ISO and ran into troubles > with GRUB. The machine had a CD drive as hda and a harddisk as hdc. > The installer converted hdc into (hd2) and the root partition hdc3 to > (hd2,2). GRUB refused to install saying something like "no such > device". I figured out that GRUB recognized hdc as (hd0). Apparently > for GRUB it doesn't matter where a harddisk is but how many disks are > installed. So (hd0) doesn't mean hda, it means the first detected disk > (even if it's hdd). In my opinion it's a serious bug in the Arch > installer. What do you people think? >
Ok... I don't want to sound like "Johnny Knowitall", but "normally", your devices should swapped (harddrive as hda, cd as hdc). Is there any specific reason why you have it setup that way? I'm just curious really I guess you could also bypass that by specifying which drive is which in the grub config file -- Martin Lefebvre eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: https://sigterm.homeunix.com Registered Linux #349269 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT dpu s:-- a- C+++ UL++++ P-- L++++ E--- W+++ N++ o-- K- w--- O- M-- V-- PS PE Y PGP-- t+++ 5- X R- tv++ b+ DI-- D+ G-- e h++ r++ y** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
