On Monday 29 January 2007 00:22, Alexander Osthof wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 28. Januar 2007 20:48 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> > I am still having problems with this for some reason(s). I actually
> > installed Mandriva this morning, got the bootloader to install and was
> > able to boot to it without having to use the DVD disc. I did have a
> > little trouble, but it was simple to fix because the problem was obvious.
> > It was pointing to a non-existant swap partition. I changed what people
> > had suggested yesterday in the menu.ist file and even edited the
> > grub.conf file, but no matter what I did, the error still came up and
> > although I changed the device from sda,7 to something else, it would put
> > it back.
> >
> > The only reference to anything about hd0,0 is on the line for booting
> > into windows. it says: "rootnoverify (hd0,0)" and the entry below it
> > says: "chainloader (hd0,0)+1"
> >
> > I'm at a loss here. I thought I understood what M Harris was telling me
> > yesterday but I'm not sure anymore. :-(
> >
> > the drive itself is sda0
> >
> > It has a primary partition (sda1), then a extended partition with two
> > logical partitions (NTFS) then the swap partition, the root partition and
> > the home partition.
> >
> > The extended partition is sda2 which I understand is always the case with
> > an extended partition. So the first (logical) partition would be sda5,
> > the second logical partition would be sda6, the swap partition is sda7,
> > the root partition is sda8 and the home partition is sda9. This is how
> > Mandriva saw it as well. Now counting the partitions is what I think is
> > confusing me. As far as the HD0,0) is concerned. Would it be like the
> > following? sda1 = hd0,1 or 0? How about the extended partition? would
> > sda2 become hd0,1 or 2? and so forth?
>
> /dev/sda1 would become (hd0,0), /dev/sda2 would become (hd0,1) and so
> forth. /dev/sdb3 would then become (hd1,2) for instance.
>
> The last letter in sd{a,b,c,...} respectively is represented by
> hd{0,1,2,..}. Analogical the partition number sda{1,2,3,...} corresponds to
> hd0,{0,1,2,..}.
>
> > well, it's almost noon and I'm getting breakfast ready! :-O Hopefully
> > someone can make sense of this. Many Thanks!The numbering of hard drives can be further complicated by the bios hard drive boot sequence. This is user controllable in late (and not so late) motherboards and can be a source of pain or an easy fix outside grub, because for example you can declare if sda is hd0 or if hda is hd0 in bios. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
