Fedora2 confused about SATA drives.

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu May 20 21:33:39 UTC 2004


On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:17:22PM -0600, reg at dwf.com wrote:
> In LINUX, the two SATA disks are referred to as /dev/sda and /dev/sdb .
> On the root statement for GRUB the first is referred to as /dev/hd0

GRUB isnt just a Linux app it uses its own notation according to BIOS
numbering of devices.

> I will assume that the root= on the kernel line would want /dev/sda, 
> but I have yet to change it from the root=LABEL=/1 syntax.

If its /dev/sda in Linux then its /dev/sda for the root=





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