not possible

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Mon Oct 22 22:45:44 UTC 2007


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?
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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]

-- 
Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>




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