> According to the documentation, the first hard drive, no matter what > else is in the system, is named hd0. The third partition (slice) on > this device would be hd0s3. > > According to GRUB, there is no hd0s3. It does find hd1s3 to have the > correct signatures, partition type and fs type. I suspect that the > BIOS may be lying about the devices so that it can boot the SCSI > disk.
Not lying, grub maps the bios drives to hdn in the order the bios tells it to. > > > Is this a message printed when I refer to a non-existent device? > > > > Looks like a good guess. > > Yet, I don't believe that that is what it means since I get a > different error when I use a verifiably non-existent device spec such > as sd5 or hd5. Can I take a guess that the hdd is a slave? If so, try making it the master and see what happens, then, check the bug-hurd archive from about a month ago. -Neal -- Neal H Walfield University of Massachusetts at Lowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
