Re: not possible

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Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:39 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
Again two hard drives IDE and SATA. Now SATA is /dev/sdf (hd5,2) and fdisk finds it with no problem. But when I try to set up grub with:

grub> root (hd5,2) it errors out saying no such location! Why can't grub see that SATA drive?
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because grub counts physical drives and you don't have 5 physical drives
- thus grub might not have a problem 'seeing' the drive but you have to
get it close... try [hd1,2] or [hd0,2]

Thank you Craig! It was (hd1,2) that worked and it is one drive above this one as you expected.

I do not think I saw this grub fact before. I was just ignorant ;-)



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