On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:37:00AM +0100, Rafal Szczepaniak wrote: > Maybe it's not a bug in the installer but a "feature" of grub ? > > When I was moving one of my systems to a new hard disk I found this: > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall.html#Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall > > "For example, most operating systems don't tell GRUB how to map BIOS > drives to OS devices correctly—GRUB merely guesses the mapping. > This will succeed in most cases, but not always. Therefore, GRUB provides > you with a map file called the device map, which you must fix if it is wrong."
Good call. I've never had a problem (or heard one reported) so I didn't think we had to bother with the device map file. I'll add this as a bug report and see to it when I can. - J _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
