bootable drive

[Stephane Dalton]

Hi everybody,

After reading the mailing list archive and the GRUB manual a couple of times, I
didn't find the answer to my question. So here it is:

I've two machines, one is a build machine and the other is a production one.
>From the build machine, I want to be able to "produce" a bootable harddrive for
the production machine.

As you might have guessed, the moving harddisk doesn't have the same number on
the production and build machine.

I suppose this difference is the root of GRUB hard disk error that I see during
stage1 when I put the hard drive in the production machine.

Is there a solution to this, I know that using LILO there's a way to work
around this problem, any correspondance with GRUB?

eg.
lilo.conf:   disk=/dev/hdb, bios=0x80 (change as appropriate).

BTW, I might be completely wrong here, but using a floppy drive on the
production machine and using the root and setup command I've been able to
acheive a bootable hd (so it's not a weird BIOS problem).

Any hints ?, is it a new feature that needs to be added to GRUB (I'm willing to
implement it as I REALLY need it!)