Craig Sampson wrote: > One of the last installation screens is to determine where you would > like to install grub. Choices are MBR or elsewhere. If you don't > choose MBR then elsewhere is suggested as grub notation (hd0) or > /dev/hda. > > This is a problem. Users unfamiliar with grub won't necessarily know > that the first partion on the first hard drive is hd(0,1). It could be > hd(0,0) for instance, or even hd(1,1), both of which seem logical and > might be guessed...there appears to be no other help.
The first partition of the first hard drive is (hd0,0), not (hd0,1). The
instructions are detailed and clear:
The device can be specified using GRUB's "(hdn,m)" notation, or as a device
in /dev. Below are some examples:
- "(hd0)" or "/dev/hda" will install GRUB to the master boot record of
your first hard drive (IDE);
- "(hd0,1)" or "/dev/hda2" will use the second partition of your first
IDE drive;
- "(hd2,4)" or "/dev/sdc5" will use the first extended partition of your
third drive (SCSI here);
- "(fd0)" or "/dev/fd0" will install GRUB to a floppy.
> As for the suggestion of using /dev/hda... this won't work because none
> of the old style drive paths are supported at this stage, so, no
> /dev/hda, /dev/sda, /dev/hda1 etc etc. Drives are specified using 'new'
> drive paths of /dev/ide/bus...blah/blah/blah which leaves the
> instructions incorrect and the newby wondering whats going on.
The instructions are correct, and you're mistaken about what will work.
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