grub for triple boot

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 24 August 2006 17:04, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 13:41 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > Grubs drive/partition naming is different to the norm.  hda  is (hd0),
> > hda1 is (hd0,0) , hdb is (hd1) , hdb1 is (hd1,0) , and so on.
>
> Not quite...  It's oversimplifying the situation just a bit.

Hi Tim. Agreed.
>
> It would be like that if you had drives on hda, hdb, and so on.  But if
> you had drives on hda and hdc, and nothing at hdb they'd be hd0 and hd1,
> not hd0 and hd2.  It counts the drive starting from 0 upwards, and
> doesn't skip any numbers.  You don't even have to start from hda.  I
> have a system like this:
>
> /dev/hda zip
> /dev/hdb not used
> /dev/hdc DVD
> /dev/hdd CD
> /dev/hde HDD
> /dev/hdf HDD
>
> The last two are hd0 and hd1.

I agree that it does get a bit more complex, and have suffered from that 
myself, but as the OP is only dealing with hda, and hdb, which are 
harddrives, he isn't going into the more mysterious areas of Grub, and I was 
getting wrist cramp writing out that huge post as it was. I probably should 
have left out the "and so on" bit.

Nigel.


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