sd, sd, who's got the sd

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 3 May 2007 12:04:17 -0600
Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:

> > That leaves the /boot/grub/device.map.  The grub command prompt
> > like to use devices fo the form (hd0) or (hd0,0).  
> 
> Thas has _nothing_ to do with /dev/hda or /dev/sdb or anything
> of that sort.  "hd0" above means "an initial disk device in
> BIOS ordering".

Actually, it has something to do with it, because grub apparently
uses the /boot/grub/device.map file to correlate anaconda's
idea of /dev/sd* with grub's idea (hd*). Unfortunately there are
already other threads with people talking about the fact that
anaconda doesn't see the same /dev/sd* mapping as the installed
kernel sees when it boots later, so who knows which one grub
is using :-).