Grub drive order problem

[Mick Mearns]

--- av1 at ansae.com wrote:
> Just to clarify my previous post, my /boot/grub/device.map file says
> this 
> 
> (fd0)	/dev/fd0
> (hd0)	/dev/hda
> (hd1)	/dev/hdb
> (hd2)	/dev/sda
> (hd3)	/dev/sdb 
> 
> So the two IDE drives, hda and hdb are (hd0) and (hd1) as expected.
> If I run 
> the grub shell forom linux and do "find /grub/stage1" it says 
> 
> (hd0,0)
> (hd1,0) 
> 
> also as expected. My two copies of grub are on /dev/hda1 and
> /dev/hdb1. 
> 
> However, when I boot the machine, break out of the grub menu, go into
> the 
> grub shell, and type "find /grub/stage1", I get 
> 
> (hd0,0)
> (hd3,0) 
> 
> So now grub thinks my 2nd ide drive is (hd3) not (hd1). 
> 
> How do I fix this? Any advice appreciated! 
> 
>  --Cliff Avey
> 

Hello;
  use a boot floppy (tomsrtbt) mount each /boot partition and edit the
device.map files to match their respective grub.conf.

Mick

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