Linda Walsh wrote:
I ran into a bug that I wanted to see if anyone else has seen or
might have information about.
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Anyone know why the SUSE 10.3 install process might feel it necessary
to create a logical order "opposite" the physical order (and thus
confuse itself)? Clearly this isn't a desirable outcome...sigh...
Linda
Linda,
That is exactly one of the problems I am running into trying to get
grub to boot from a usb drive. It seems that grub or openSuSE will remap
the drives based upon the drive it boots from. In my case I have a spare
laptop drive that I am hooking up with a usb to ide adapter. Each drive
is roughly the same with dual boot XP and 10.3. After booting from the
drive installed in the laptop, connecting the usb cable and attaching
the second drive, the laptop drive is sda and the usb drive is sbb.
Attempting to boot from the usb drive the OS then considers the laptop
drive sda and the installed drive sdb. I haven't been successful booting
XP from the usb drive, but the opensuse howto says you have to remap to
get around the problem by including in the grub entry:
map hd(0) hd(1)
map hd(1) hd(0)
Basicially it is a way to a trick grub into booting the right
partition. There is some spotty information on the drive remapping
behavior on the openSuSE site for usb installs. I'm not sure this is the
exact same problem, but the issue of drive swapping from a->b and b->a
is the same.
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