On Nov 27, 2007 1:29 PM, Dr. Edgar Alwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 November 2007 09:39, Heinrich Tomanek wrote: > > > calling grub with a disk option is not the right way, i hope it was a > > typo. In grub, every disk is a HD, therefore is your disk a hd0. > > > Not at all a typo. Lack of knowledge ! > > > The correct command sequence for sda5 (hd0,4) is: > > # sh> grub > > # grub> root (hd0,4) > > # grub> setup (hd0,4) > > # grub> quit > > ... > > # sh> reboot # and enjoy > > > Well, this for sure will install in the main /dev/hda5, which I can not hide > during this process. The point is, I am trying to install really > to /dev/sda5, which should be something like grub> root ( sda0,4). > Any way to perform this ? > Thank you very much for the help, as well as to Lauri's comment.
Look in /boot/grub/device.map to see how grub interprets your drives. If it doesn't exist yet, run this command: echo quit | grub --batch --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
