Grub set up

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 09:01 -0400, Richard E. Barmann wrote:
> When I did the install I had to make the 20G (windows) master in order
> to boot 
> it up from a disc. Then I changed the IDE ribbon and jumbers and
> installed 
> Dapper Dan 6.06 on the 80G drive
> That is why I was told to add
> map             (hd1)(hd0)
> map             (hd0)(hd1)

That 20G drive is not the master, it is definitely the slave - that's
why it is being detected as hdb.

I feel you were given inappropriate advice in being told to switch the
drives around - that always causes grief in the end (sometimes you have
to, but there's always a way to switch it back). If you have checked the
cabling and the jumpers and you are sure the small drive is the master
per all that, check that drive order has not been swapped in the BIOS.
This has nothing to do with devices.map, that simply tells grub how to
interpret what it finds from the BIOS. There has to be a reason why your
drives are switched around, and it doesn;t help continuing till we find
out why and correct it.

alan