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

[Harmon S. Nine]

That did it !! :-)

Thank you very much.

-- Harmon

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:

> 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
> 

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