From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECvJo-0008HK-4V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2005 08:30:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j878PlOs004912; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:25:47 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j878ME09032272 for ; Wed, 7 Sep 2005 08:22:14 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 Sep 2005 08:25:41 -0000 Received: from 84-72-130-34.dclient.hispeed.ch (EHLO [127.0.0.1]) [84.72.130.34] by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 07 Sep 2005 10:25:41 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1076219 Message-ID: <431EA3FF.5020108@gmx.ch> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:25:35 +0200 From: Christoph Gysin User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050726) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub over the top of Win XP References: <5bdc1c8b0509062140bea5bc6@mail.gmail.com> <1126077831.10169.12.camel@spok.local.sporn-it.com> <20050907085824.12d39715@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050907085824.12d39715@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 02e58d0a-f718-4771-9ece-41e747978491 X-Archives-Hash: 6375f3317168a9eb67766b6a2cc252e1 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Correct, and /dev/hda5 is (hd0,4) despite all the conflicting advice > you've been given. All my boxes have /boot on hda5 and all use hd0,4 > (well, except the iBook which uses that horrible yaboot thing, anyone > who wants to start a grub vs. lilo flame war should be made to use > yaboot). Sorry for the confusing answers. I was pretty sure grub doesn't care wether your partions are primary or logical, giving each a number starting from 0. Appearantly this is *not* the case. From the docs: (hd0,1) Here, `hd' means it is a hard disk drive. The first integer `0' indicates the drive number, that is, the first hard disk, while the second integer, `1', indicates the partition number (or the PC slice number in the BSD terminology). Once again, please note that the partition numbers are counted from _zero_, not from one. This expression means the second partition of the first hard disk drive. In this case, GRUB uses one partition of the disk, instead of the whole disk. (hd0,4) This specifies the first "extended partition" of the first hard disk drive. Note that the partition numbers for extended partitions are counted from `4', regardless of the actual number of primary partitions on your hard disk. Hope this made things clearer now... Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" org@fr33z3 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list