Re: [opensuse] detecting HD's location for grub

On Saturday 01 October 2005 19:45, houghi wrote:

On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 07:17:48PM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:

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The way grub-install does it is

df `dirname filename| sed -n 's%.*\(/dev/[^ ]*\).*%\1%p'

I'm looking at the BIOS stuff in grub now to see if I can make a stand-alone utility out of it

I think I am going in circles here. The above (if you put a backtick in front of |, making it filename`| )

Well, I expressed myself badly. dirname is a command, but filename was meant to be replaced with whatever file you wanted to know the location of

tells me /dev/hdf3. That still does not show me hd3,2

No, but combine that with the device map and you're set

Would be handy if all could be done with one command

I'm working on it