Linda Walsh wrote:
I ran into a bug that I wanted to see if anyone else has seen or might have information about. <snip> Anyone know why the SUSE 10.3 install process might feel it necessary to create a logical order "opposite" the physical order (and thus confuse itself)? Clearly this isn't a desirable outcome...sigh...
Linda
Linda, That is exactly one of the problems I am running into trying to get grub to boot from a usb drive. It seems that grub or openSuSE will remap the drives based upon the drive it boots from. In my case I have a spare laptop drive that I am hooking up with a usb to ide adapter. Each drive is roughly the same with dual boot XP and 10.3. After booting from the drive installed in the laptop, connecting the usb cable and attaching the second drive, the laptop drive is sda and the usb drive is sbb. Attempting to boot from the usb drive the OS then considers the laptop drive sda and the installed drive sdb. I haven't been successful booting XP from the usb drive, but the opensuse howto says you have to remap to get around the problem by including in the grub entry: map hd(0) hd(1) map hd(1) hd(0) Basicially it is a way to a trick grub into booting the right partition. There is some spotty information on the drive remapping behavior on the openSuSE site for usb installs. I'm not sure this is the exact same problem, but the issue of drive swapping from a->b and b->a is the same. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org