On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 02:47 +0200, nigel henry wrote: > There's some weird stuff going on here, as (hd2) hdc, is the cdwriter, > and when I ran grub> setup (hd2) the writers light was flickering > quite a bit, but as you can see from the output above, the bootloader > installed ok. I've only ever seen GRUB count hard drives, it skips other devices. So, if I had a system set up like with multiple devices, it'd be like this: Linux device Type of device GRUB device -------------+----------------+-------------- /dev/hda | hard drive | hd0 /dev/hdb | CD-ROM | (ignored) /dev/hdc | IDE LS-120 | fd0 /dev/hdd | hard drive | hd1 I do wish they'd get around to letting it boot from CDs. That'd make new installs easier for BIOSs that can't boot from a CD, or other things where you forbid booting from them for security reasons, but allow a password prompted non-harddrive boot through GRUB. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
