At 5:23 PM +0200 7/16/06, nigel henry wrote:
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>Hi Tim. My confusion was in not realising that Grub counted the harddrives
>sequentially, ignoring how they were identified in /dev. This wasn't helped
>by the fact that /dev/hda, and /dev/hdb, the first 2 harddrives, were listed
>by Grub as (hd0), and (hd1), which at the time seemed to confirm that Grub
>followed the listings in /dev. Logically then /dev/hde is (hd4) right? No.
>Very wrong, and resulted in the long running argument with Grub, with it
>constantly saying "no such disc" when I tried install Grub in (hd4).
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Ask grub what it thinks the drives are, by starting a command and pressing
the Tab key:
boot (<TAB>
This can be done during boot or from the grub shell. As root:
[]# grub
....
grub> boot(<TAB>
...
<TAB>
...
grub> quit
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