not possible

[Karl Larsen]

Tim 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?
>>     
>
> GRUB counts hard drives, doesn't care where they're attached, it only
> counts the hard drives, skipping other drives.
>
> e.g.
>
> Port            Connected   Older Linux    Grub
> -----------------------------------------------
> IDE1 primary    HDD         /dev/hda       hd0
> IDE1 secondary  nothing     /dev/hdb
>
> IDE2 primary    CD-ROM      /dev/hdc
> IDE2 secondary  Zip drive   /dev/hdd
>  
> IDE3 primary    HDD         /dev/hde       hd1
> IDE3 secondary  HDD         /dev/hdf       hd2
>
> I've picked on the older Linux scheme of absolutely referencing drives,
> being something that many of us are very familiar with, and to show what
> consistency versus inconsistency does for getting predictable results.
> I haven't worked out how the new /dev/sdx scheme will work, but I
> suspect you'd see this sort of thing:
>
> Port            Connected   Older Linux
> ---------------------------------------
> IDE1 primary    HDD         /dev/sda
> IDE1 secondary  nothing     
>
> IDE2 primary    CD-ROM      /dev/sdb
> IDE2 secondary  Zip drive   /dev/sdc
>  
> IDE3 primary    HDD         /dev/sdd
> IDE3 secondary  HDD         /dev/sde
>
> And, if you plugged in an external USB drive, and *if* your BIOS will
> use USB first when there's something on it, you could expect them all to
> shift to higher letters, with your USB drive being /dev/sda.
>
>   
    That does not sound like progress. But it sounds different and would 
mean you cannot live without labels and the whole thing will be a mess 
to understand.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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