device ordering

[Jason Thomas]

hey anyone have any ideas what to put in the doco to answer this
question.


>      The grub info file says:
> 
> |      (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 does not adequately describe the way grub counts these
> devices.  On my machine, grub counts the first drive on the first
> controller, then the first drive on the second controller, then the
> second drive on the first controller, etc.
> 
>      Therefore the following table describes the mapping of drives on
> my machine.
> 
>           /dev/hda          (hd0)
>           /dev/hdb          (hd2)
>           /dev/hdc          (hd1)
> 
>      This is counter-intuitive, and is not adequately explained in the
> documentation.
> 
> Bob


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