Grub disk: something automatic?

[Karl F. Larsen]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Â  Â  Â  Â Good luck! And I know you must find the partition which has
>> the grub on it at /boot/grub/ and call it in grub numbers.
>> /dev/sda5 = (hd0,4).
>>
> 
> Actually, it looks like Grub2 starts numbering disks from 0, just like
> Grub did. However, Grub2 seems to number partitions from 1 for some
> reason. Therefore sda5 would be (0,5). Can someone else confirm that
> this is the case with Grub2?
> 
	I switched to my Ubuntu 9.10 and looked at grub.cfg which is 
real weird! But here is a snippet from it:

	initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
}
menuentry "Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+ (on /dev/sda9)" {
	insmod ext2
	set root=(hd0,9)
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 
6bae2f33-aff5-42ca-b2cc-65cea5be3cc8
	linux /boot/memtest86+.bin
}

Notice it says 9.04 (on /dev/sda9) then set root=(hd0,9) which 
is an error when using grub-1.

	Why they do this is anyones guess!

73 Karl



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