On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 12:06 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > Tim wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 06:28 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > > > >> LABEL=/ used by F7 only tells me that it is a partition. I have zero > >> information as to where it is. > >> > > > > While the default's bad, your own names can be much more descriptive. > > > > e.g. A label of "mainboot" for the boot partition on your main drive. > > > > > >> Replaced by "/dev/sda3" tells me exactly where it is. > >> > > > > No it doesn't. Something like "/dev/hda3" would (the first IDE drive, > > third partition). But "/dev/sda3" requires you to know which drive the > > computer considers is the first drive, at the moment. > > > > > Well now that is something I did not know. I have been using fdisk > to tell me what is going on and if it says /dev/sdf3 I use mount and it > mounts /dev/sdf3 as I desired on F7. I got my SATA drive working as > /dev/sdf and it seems to be happy. Of course Grub thinks it is /dev/sdb > which is a real shock to me. ---- it's sort of like you refuse to understand. /dev/sdX or /dev/hdX is a bios designation where: hda = primary controller master hdb = primary controller slave hdc = secondary controller master hdd = secondary controller slave hde = first additional controller master hdf = first additional controller slave etc. grub uses physical drives in the order that they are discovered [hd0] = the first drive [hd1] = the second drive etc. there is no link between the two since the bios designations remain constant whether there are devices there or not where grub only considers physically found drives and numbers them as it finds them. -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
