Re: More on installing grub on a disk that isn't the first disk, but will be

[Jochen Hoenicke]

On Sep 21, Harmon S. Nine wrote:
> 
> The "drive" that isn't the first hard drive on my machine (but will be in
> another machine) is actually a PCMCIA IDE flash card which, when inserted,
> is mapped as /dev/hde (i.e. the fifth hard drive).  This flash will become
> the primary IDE hard drive on another machine, and actually be seen as
> such, i.e. it will not be seen as a PCMCIA device there.
> 
> On my machine, grub doesn't recognize the flash (/dev/hde) as the fifth
> hard drive (i.e. grub's (hd4)), so I give the command:
> 
> grub>  device (hd4) /dev/hde

It's better to tell grub how it will look on the target machine.  So
say "device (hd0) /dev/hde" and you don't have the problems you
mentioned.  If you haven't already, copy the whole /boot/grub
directory to your new hard disk.  If you still need access to your
/dev/hda you can map that to (hd4), but make sure the install command
doesn't refer to it.

  Jochen