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Today's Topics:
1. Re: SATA drive nomenclature (Marco Gerards)
2. Re: SATA drive nomenclature (Oliver Beck)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:02:02 +0000
From: Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>
Subject: Re: SATA drive nomenclature
To: Bas Wijnen <b.wijnen@phys.rug.nl>
Cc: blythe2@tcnj.edu, help-hurd@gnu.org, Nathan Blythe
<blythe2@cyrus.tcnj.edu>
Message-ID: <87d60ak6p1.fsf@marco.marco-g.com>
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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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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 12:33:27 +0200
From: Oliver Beck <lists@inetmx.de>
Subject: Re: SATA drive nomenclature
To: help-hurd@gnu.org
Message-ID: <20040925123327.60fbe8c9@slackware.asgard>
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:00:04 -0400 (EDT)
<blythe2@TCNJ.EDU> wrote:
> I want to boot from my GRUB prompt to the SATA drive, but I can't
> figure out what device name to supply as root. I've tested hd0s1
> through hd5s1 and sd0s1 through sd5s1 (the s1 part is correct, the
> first partition on the drive is root), but the boot process claims not
> to be able to find any of them.
I have 2 SATA drives running with Grub (not with GNU/Hurd or GNUMach).
I can access the drives with hd0sX and hd1sX.
Grub is version 0.93 with a patch to display splashimages.
My SATA-Controller is an VIA onboard-Controller. My PCI-Database doesn't
know the them, but he is on an ASUS A7V600 with an VIA KT-600.
Mit freundlichen Gruessen/Best Regards Oliver Beck
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