Re: using GRUB

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu>]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:47:12PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > Uh, well, you mean hda to hdc?  Plus SCSI drives, etc etc.  Oh, ick.
> > There must be a better way.
> 
> grub uses a different naming scheme for drives: so (hd1) means the
> whole first IDE disk (ie /dev/hda).

and GRUB starts with 0, so (hd0) is /dev/hda provided that:

1) there are no SCSI drives
	-or-
2) if there are SCSI drives, then the BIOS detects the IDE drives first.

-john