not possible

[Karl Larsen]

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:39 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>     Again two hard drives IDE and SATA. Now SATA is /dev/sdf (hd5,2) and 
>> fdisk finds it with no problem. But when I try to set up grub with:
>>
>> grub> root (hd5,2) it errors out saying no such location! Why can't grub 
>> see that SATA drive?
>>     
> ----
> because grub counts physical drives and you don't have 5 physical drives
> - thus grub might not have a problem 'seeing' the drive but you have to
> get it close... try [hd1,2] or [hd0,2]
>
>   
    Thank you Craig! It was (hd1,2) that worked and it is one drive 
above this one as you expected.

I do not think I saw this grub fact before. I was just ignorant ;-)



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