On 12/1/05,
Judd Vinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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