2 hard disks

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sun Dec 2 02:38:45 UTC 2007


On 12/01/2007 05:27 AM, norman wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 06:21 -0600, B.J. McClure wrote:

>> > 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
> 
> 
> 

See my new post:
[Howto] Dualboot 2 drives Ubuntu/Win

Hopefully that will help when you get ready to try again.






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