not possible

[Michael Schwendt]

On 23/10/2007, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 16:39 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >
> >>     Again two hard drives IDE and SATA. Now SATA is /dev/sdf (hd5,2) and
> >> fdisk finds it with no problem. But when I try to set up grub with:
> >>
> >> grub> root (hd5,2) it errors out saying no such location! Why can't grub
> >> see that SATA drive?
> >>
> > ----
> > because grub counts physical drives and you don't have 5 physical drives
> > - thus grub might not have a problem 'seeing' the drive but you have to
> > get it close... try [hd1,2] or [hd0,2]
> >
> >
>     Thank you Craig! It was (hd1,2) that worked and it is one drive
> above this one as you expected.
>
> I do not think I saw this grub fact before. I was just ignorant ;-)

cat /boot/grub/device.map