Re: GRUB

[Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Aldo Foot wrote:
> > On Jan 25, 2008 2:20 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  
> > >     I looked at what Google has for grub and of course the info grub and
> > > the best for a person not an expert, is an article in the Linux book for
> > > year 2001 where they talk about using floppy disks. All that I read uses
> > > language that is hard for someone to understand and never do any of the
> > > writing show applications of grub in use.
> > >
> > >      Has anyone seen a paper that is down to earth and uses examples to
> > > show grub use with Linux and Fedora?
> > >
> > > Karl
> > >     
> >
> > I myself have been wanting to find something like cookbook format.
> >
> > Did you see this? http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html, 
> > which
> > is dated May 2005. BTW this doc has the solution of a hidden partition
> > problem that
> > someone had earlier.
> >
> >
> > ~af
> >
> >   
>    No sorry this is not what I wanted. It is written by the Grub people 
> and it is all about how grub works. I want one where how grub works is 
> provided by experiments that work. And why does /devsda6 = hd(0,5)?
>
> Karl
It's the primary drive. The numbering scheme starts as zero so 
0,1,2,3,4,5 is used. They are different programs with different methods 
of identifying hard drives.