[TriLUG] Laptop installation question

[Rick DeNatale]

On 2/24/06, Ian Kilgore <ian at trilug.org> wrote:
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> Christopher Blackmon wrote:
> | I booted Knoppix 3.9 to see what the layout was of
> | /dev/hda.  hda3 is the linux root partition (I mounted
> | it to make sure).  I did a grub-install '(hd0,3)'
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> Which means, IIRC, that you just installed it to hda2.  As Brian
> McCullough said, grub's drive numbering is zero-based.  (hd0,0) is hda1

Actually it's not even that simple.  (hd0,0) is the first partition on
the first hard disk in the BIOS boot order, which might or might not
be the first IDE drive.  In fact, it might not even be an IDE drive at
all, on a system with both IDE and SCSI drives it might be sdx,
although that's not likely on a laptop.

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Rick DeNatale

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