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Re: [SLE] LILO vs GRUB
  • From: Gerhard den Hollander <gdenhollander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:37:18 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <20051103123709.GJ1216@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 07:33:01AM -0500)

> > 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

> I thought the third disk would be hdc, doesn't matter how it is attached
> to the controller.


Yes, but Unix is based on C, and there we start counting with 0
So 1st harddisk is hard disk number zero is hd0/hda
The disk number 3 / hd3 is then hdd
(which means it's the slave on the secondary IDE channel)

>
> --
> Ken Schneider
> UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
>

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