2 hard disks

[norman]

On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 06:21 -0600, B.J. McClure wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 09:51 +0000, norman wrote:
> > < snip >
> > 
> > > title Windows XP professional
> > > map (hd0) (hd1)
> > > map (hd1) (hd0)
> > > rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> > > chainloader +1
> > 
> > I have been reading through this thread in light of more things I have
> > been learning. Because one drive is IDE and the other SATA is it correct
> > to refer to them both as 'hd' or should one be 'hd' and the other 'sd'?
> > 
> > 
> I think the short answer is : yes, no.  I run machines with sata drives and others with pata and my grub configuration is always "hdx".
> 
> Grub basically talks bios terminology while the OS distinguishes between
> sdx and hdx.

Thank you, that clears that one for future reference.

Norman