On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 04:11:15PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: > > 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.
Whatever you call it. There's one IDE drive in the machine and GRUB sees it as hd2. > > > > 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. Nope. It's already master. > > -Neal > > -- > Neal H Walfield > University of Massachusetts at Lowell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
