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Re: SATA drive nomenclature


From: Marco Gerards
Subject: Re: SATA drive nomenclature
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:02:02 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

Bas Wijnen <b.wijnen@phys.rug.nl> writes:

> Grub nomenclature is a bit different from all others AFAIK.  There's
> some explanation in the grub manual and I think in the Hurd install
> guide as well.  In short, grub uses the bios and therefore only knows
> about bios drives.  All hard drives are hd, and they are numbered by
> the bios.  So if you have (in Linux nomenclature) hda and hdc
> installed, then hda is hd0 for grub, and hdc is hd1.

Not in all cases.  Sometimes the BIOS sets hd0 to the drive that is
booted from, for example.  You can't reliably determine what the BIOS
will do without knowing how this specific BIOS works.

> Partitions are specified with a comma, and the complete device name is
> in parenthesis.  So your device is probably:
> (hd0,0)
> Try pressing the tab key on the grub commandline, it gives a lot of
> information (possible devices, partition types.)

I use the find command for this:

find /boot/gnumach.gz

--
Marco





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