retitle 463391 wrong root device reassign 463391 grub-pc thanks On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 08:02:44PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > update-grub sets my root partition to (hd1,0), however when grub boot it > > seems to always consider the booting disk as (hd0). device.map files > > maps my sda disk to hd1, this seems to be the cause of the problem. > > Unfortunately when you have multiple disks of different types, like you do, > there's no perfect way to figure out what number will the bios assign to > each one. It'll be possible to improve this in the future (by not using > the bios), but this will take time. > > The solution for these situations is to edit device.map.
Uhm actually, it seems there *is* a bug. More details in this thread: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-02/msg00063.html and specially Okuji's reply: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-02/msg00084.html > > Now, > > when booting grub fails to load the font file for gfxterm and the > > background image, leaving me with a pinkish screen with no visible text > > making it impossible to even boot manually. I've to use a livecd and > > change hd1 to hd0 in order to boot again. > > Error handling in the scripting engine clearly can be improved. I'll keep > this bug open for that purpose. And then, I was wrong at this too! http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-02/msg00076.html Oh well, this wasn't my day.... -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
