On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:26:41AM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > 1)bios lists the masters first, then the slaves? No. But it can report SCSI hard disks before ATA. Or after. Depends on your boot order. > 2)bios lists the harddrives then the cd drives? BIOS doesn't list cd drives as hard disks .:) > 3)grub's "hd*" numbering scheme simply skips cd drives? In which case, > what does grub call the durned things? It doesn't call them anything. Grub can't boot from cdroms. > 4)I'm completely clueless and should just sell my soul back to M$ > because I'm incapable of understanding anything... <whimper> ;) Learning is a continuos process. Don't expect to know everything about stuff you haven't used or examined before. Anyway, the documentation always helps. (Section "Naming convention" on grub's info page.) Regards, Luciano Rocha
