On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:47:45AM -0500, Zachary Kotlarek wrote: > Grub uses its own naming structure for drives and partitions in the > form of (hdn,m), where n is the hard drive number and m is the > partition number, both starting from zero. Grub does not distinguish > between busses, but simply names disks in the same order they are > presented by your BIOS, skipping any optical drives. While the > particular order of disks that grub chooses is BIOS dependent, /dev/hda > or /dev/sda are usually considered hd0 by grub. > > For example, on an IDE-based machine with a hard drive at /dev/hda, a > CD drive at /dev/hdc, and a second hard drive at /dev/hde, grub would > likely present the first hard drive as hd0, the second hard drive as > hd1, and would not present the CD drive at all.
Sounds good. Maybe also bount them to the info page for information on how grub's naming conventions. -- Mark A. Nicolosi -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
