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RE: [SLE] LILO vs GRUB
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 15:08:48 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511031408090.19875@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Thursday 2005-11-03 at 07:33 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote:

> > grub> root (hd
> > Possible disks are: hd0 hd1
> >
> >
> > and the new disk is number 3, hdd. I can not install grub there, nor can I
> > use a boot partition there. I haven't tried lilo yet, but I might. I
> > wonder if I could test lilo first without installing it.
> >
> I thought the third disk would be hdc, doesn't matter how it is attached
> to the controller.

Correct, but grub counts starting from 0; thus hd3 is in fact the fourth
disk. I doesn't matter, my grub doesn't see anything else but hda and
hdb. No hdd, whatever it chooses to call it.

- --
Cheers,
Carlos Robinson

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