On 23/10/2007, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? > >> > > ---- > > 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 ;-) cat /boot/grub/device.map
