On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 01:24:42PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: [deletia] > > 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. > > Well, I don't have a SCSI device to check, but as I read in the Easy > Guide, grub would know the third partition on the first SCSI drive as > (hd0,2) (assuming you have no IDE drive on the system) but hurd would > know the same partition by sd0s3 (vice hd0s3).
Yes. According to the documentation, that would be correct. On my systems, it isn't. > > 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. > > The grub 'find' command is useful (e.g., find /boot/gnumach.gz). IIRC, > it'll return the grub name of the partition. It'll probably return the > one you expect; it looks like the problem is getting the right hurd name > for the kernel command. Cool. Thanks for the tip. > I'm not sure what to make of this. Perhaps it's trying to read a real > device like the cdrom instead of a non-existent device so the error > _should_ be different. Here's the scoop. I reinstalled from the second machine using the same steps as the first time. It booted OK. So, it's running multi-user, booting from a GRUB floppy. The numbering is still strange as this device is *still* numbered hd2 even though there are no other IDE hard drives in the machine. -M
