From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPkbD-0001Pv-DR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:59:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C707E03F1; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C32E03F1 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:59:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 80CC55991B5 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:59:13 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:59:05 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inconsistent mountpoint for / Message-ID: <20090711225905.51ac7a25@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <83fxd4nkf9.fsf@gmail.com> <20090711142607.0edf1ce8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <7bef1f890907110730q41489a33x2baa918a06b7d06e@mail.gmail.com> <200907111708.50295.wonko@wonkology.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs2 (GTK+ 2.16.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/1d1g.o=uHuoIe9JeXAUBIMm"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: ddeece5e-f3f3-4597-8509-324cf04cc880 X-Archives-Hash: 561f0054a78603447b3d8f8d2d6ea7b6 --Sig_/1d1g.o=uHuoIe9JeXAUBIMm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:33:36 -0700, walt wrote: > My USB stick, e.g. shows up in grub as (hd2). Now, I can't possibly > think straight enough to know in advance that the USB stick is (hd2), > so what I do every time is to use this trick from the grub prompt: >=20 > grub> root (hd > grub> root (hd =20 > Possible disks are: hd0 hd1 hd2 >=20 > Now for each of the three disks I continue this way: > grub> root (hd0, =20 >=20 > On the third disk I finally recognize my USB stick because it has only > one partition, but just to be sure: >=20 > grub> root (hd2,0)/ grub> partition> =20 >=20 > If by that time I'm still not sure which is the right disk then I'd > better go take a nap before proceeding ;o) Or you could use find from the grub prompt. Just put a file identifying the USB stick in its root directory and find that. --=20 Neil Bothwick Computer (n): A device designed to speed and automate errors. --Sig_/1d1g.o=uHuoIe9JeXAUBIMm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpZCzAACgkQum4al0N1GQP5zQCg275AtEt9AAn5JmXcKCzpJosJ ja0AoIbSnS7U1hZj30SdhQ+O1+O5lwzL =Dqs2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/1d1g.o=uHuoIe9JeXAUBIMm--