On Saturday 01 October 2005 18:02, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* houghi <houghi@houghi.org> [10-01-05 10:47]:
I have a bit more information. Say I have the Alpha 1 all in /media/data/opensuse/DVD_10.1_A1 That means that linux and initard are: /media/data/opensuse/DVD_10.1_A1/boot/loader/linux /media/data/opensuse/DVD_10.1_A1/boot/loader/initrd
Now /media/data is /dev/hdf3, so I must enter the following in grub:
title DVD_10.1_A1 root # Later kernel /opensuse/DVD_10.1_A1/boot/loader/linux initrd /opensuse/DVD_10.1_A1/boot/loader/initrd
Now I still need to know what root is. I can do this by counting. I can also do this by lauching `grub` as root and enter: grub> find /opensuse/DVD_10.1_A1/boot/loader/linux
This gives me : (hd3,2)
Any way I could do this without entering grub?
Not to my knowledge.
BUT, you said that /media/data is /dev/hdf3 and grub gives you (hd3,2). This is incorrect as I understand. 'f' is the sixth letter which would translate to the digit 5, the sixth digit counting zero. I believe it should read (hd5,2).
Also remember, the number of hard drives is not relevant for the device location. It *is* the device location on the bus that determines the device name, /dev/hdf3, sixth device, third primary partition on the device.
No it isn't. For grub, what's interesting is the ordering the BIOS uses (changeable in the device map) I don't think it would be too much difficulty ripping out the device identification bits of grub to a stand-alone utility. But isn't "cat /boot/grub/device.map" sufficient?