Grub set up

[Richard E. Barmann]

On Tuesday 04 July 2006 9:25 am, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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.
Yes the 20G drive is the slave. I just pulled the drives and checked the set 
up and jumpers. The 20G (windows) is the slave and the 80G (linux) is 
definitely the master. I did switch them after installing windows on the 20G 
but  left them as they are now. 80G hda master linux/20G hdb slave windows.
> 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