Translating /dev/xxx to Grub hdxxx, yyy

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 01:07 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 19:45 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R writes:
> > 
> > > In my odyssey to install FC4 64 on my Asus P5GD1 mobo,
> > > I installed Suse 9.3 DVD on the system.  Installation went
> > > without a hitch - no fooling around with where to put the
> > > loader, etc.  That is the good news.
> > > 
> > > The bad news is, Suse sets the SATA drive to hd0 according
> > > to the Grub config file.  So apparently the grub drive mapping is
> > > different between FC4 and Suse.
> > > 
> > > So how does one translate from /dev/xxx as spoken by Disk Druid
> > > to grubspeak???
> > 
> > See /boot/grub/device.map
> 
> Well, that says how FC4 saw the drives at install time. 

Exactly, this is not the answer.

Check the documentation:
info grub 'Naming convention'

Ralf