Joel Miller wrote:
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That's because fdisk needs an argument of the block device to perform
operations on. Let me try to illustrate what I'm saying:
Reboot your system and when the grub selection screen comes up enter the
console (I can't remember right now if you press the 'c' or 'e' key to
do that). You are now in the grub console and the only thing that has
been loaded is the grub from the master boot record. Control has not
been handed off yet to an operating system, let alone having virtual
filesystems mounted. You can now make tab completions in the console
without any operating system loaded and any partitions mounted.
Obviously /dev does not play a role in this.
Sorry to reply to myself, but as a corralery to this line of thinking,
it would seem that grub might depend on the BIOS reporting of drives
rather than anything to do with the device nodes.
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