On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:32:44AM +0200, Yotam Medini wrote: > > Hello Grub gurus, > > I may have missed some Grub feature or Grub hidden documentation note. > If so, please let me know. > > Say, you have two computers C1 and C2, with hard disks H1 in C1 > and H2 in C2. Now C1 has linux nicely installed on its H1, > while C2 & H2 are almost empty. > > Say you want to install grub boot on H2 for C2. It will be convenient > to unscrew some screws and bring H2 as a (secondary) disk to C1, and > use C1 to install grub in H2. After successful installation (lots of > chroot operations) and configuration, bring back H2 to C3.
I agree this is a useful scenario. At this situation, though, I would connect H1 as slave in C2, boot knoppix there, copy/install whatever I want, then take H1 back to C1. > > Now, when writing the grub menu for H2, while at C1, > you end up referring to (hd1,.), > while you actually want to finally have (hd0,.) when back at H2. > A nice feature would be, to have an implicit symbol, > for the "device-being-booted-by", say 'bd'. I am pretty sure what you want is possible, but might not be easy, by playing with device.map and/or the 'map' command. I think it's more work, and less robust, than doing it on H2 one way or another (e.g. with a grub floppy or knoppix). -- Didi _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
