Re: autodetecting MBR location

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Russell Coker 

| My lilo configuration scripts need to be able to infer the correct location 
| for the MBR.  I am currently using the following algorithm:
| take root fs device from /etc/fstab and do the following:
| s/[0-9]*//
| s/part$/disc/

What is the use of the first s/?  Unless your first letter is a digit,
it will just remove the zero-width string '' between the first / and
the beginning of the string.

A better solution will probably be to 

s/[0-9]$//

which will remove 5 from /dev/hda5.

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Tollef Fog Heen
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