Re: using GRUB
On Tue Jan 23, 2001 at 08:49:04PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >
> > I guess that CD-Rom drive could be anywhere from
> > (hd1) to (hd3).
>
> Uh, well, you mean hda to hdc? Plus SCSI drives, etc etc. Oh, ick.
> There must be a better way.
I did a similar thing once. I used a simple shell script on boot to try and
mount /dev/hd[abcdefg] and /dev/scd[0123456789] and then look for the presence
of a magic file name and md5sum. Was easy enough to do and worked very well.
-Erik
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