[TriLUG] Laptop installation question

[Christopher Blackmon]

Isn't that backwards?  Wouldn't (hd0,3) be /dev/hda4?


--- 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)'
> 
> 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
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