Re: [SLE] GRUB, SATA and mysterious drive numbers

Dave Howorth wrote:

That's why I'm confused. Why does GRUB find the kernel and the initrd on (hd0,0) instead of (hd2,0)? Especially when it is /dev/hde1 instead of /dev/hda1.

FWIW, I've now changed the boot order of the drives in the BIOS. The boot order is now PATA, SATA0, SATA1 With this change and using the Win2000 boot loader chaining to another version of GRUB (from the Knoppix 3.2 distribution, IIRC) I can now boot the system into SUSE 9.0 using the GRUB drive number (hd1,0) which is what I would expect. I wonder if GRUB knows that the BIOS is able to scan drives in a different order for boot purposes than when scanning the hardware? This might account for its schizophrenia over drive numbers. Cheers, Dave