briefly i'm using a sata disk as root with ide disks in removable trays. removing ide disks means the the number of ides woud change where the sata disk is mapped, so i'm using the device.map file.
only problem is the device.map file only works when booting from a hard disk. when booting from a floppy there is no effect, ie. the drives that would normally be used are used rather than the remapped drives. if someone could back to me on this asap i would apreciate it. this issue has proven quite troubling requiring that special boot disks must be made for a given harddrive configuration. notes: after using grub-install with the floppy disk, it reports proper device mapping. but on boot the wrong device is found. ie: normally sda is mapped to hd0, but on floppy boot grub attempts to access hda for instance and reports the boot partition does not exist. if however i edit the menu.lst file to boot in what would be the default mapping without device.map, the boot is fine.... just very inconvenient finding and creating boot disks. sincerely, michael _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
