Hello,

I would like to find which one of my harddisk is hd0 and hd1 ?

fdisk -l gives nice stuffs but nothing about hdX


No # cat /boot/grub/device.map
works since I booted with knoppix the broken pc

I believe all of latest kernels name all hard drives sd(x). So, hd0 would be sda and hd1 would be sdb.

Hope that helps

Bob

Nope
it is not possible : wrong answer.
If you have ide card to plug sdaX, it is not true anymore.


Is there a code/ command line to check it ??

OK, I will leave that as you wish. However, I run six distros, one machine with two SATA drives, two IDE drives and they are all identified as sd(X) with the fdisk -l command in all six distros running the 2.6 kernel. This is also true for removable pen drives when inserted. But, if you see it differently, that's OK with me.

Bob

In Grub configuration hd0 means the primary harddisk and hd1 secondary; that naming is different on your Linux operating system itself, because there devices are (at least as of now, unless you've made your own changes) called hdXN, where X is a letter and N a number. In the past IDE disks used to be hda(primary)/hdb(secondary), but in newer operating systems the naming is "unified" a little and so even IDE disks are now called sda/sdb and so on, just like the other harddisks. USB devices are called that too, to bring up a little mixing..but I think it still works like this:

- your primary harddisk is sda
- your secondary harddisk (if any) is sdb
- your other devices are sdX, where X is some other letter

For example my harddisk is sda, it's partitions sda1-sda6, and if I plug a USB stick in, it's sdf (partition sdf1, it only has one partition). And I don't have any hdX devices.

after the grub-install

hd0 hde 1
hd1 sda 2 (<- to check)
hd2 sda 1

amuzing

meaning that it is the total mess now

Thanks !!!! I keep fighting with that machine

Except of cat ... device.map

Cannot we ask grub to tell us what he sees for hd0, hd1, hd2, ... directly to him, Mr Grub, with a command line ? lol

would be great that grub could have a --list to tell us what are those disks and partitions ...
tricky


grub > list or ls disks could be a great stuffs for newbies that fight

grub-installer --root-directory isnt working so great
better by far: root (hd0,0 ) & setup (hd0)

Um what does it matter to Grub what the setup is? All Grub needs to know is where Grub is found. You can ask Grub, at bootup or from a terminal window.

At the boot menu press c then ask, the command is find /boot/grub/menu.lst and Grub will tell you what drive Grub is on.
Or you can open a terminal log in as root then type grub this will start the grub command line, then give the command find /boot/grub/menu.lst

Or you can ask Grub the partitioning scheme with the command geometry (hd0)

As for a list of all drives fdisk -l <- what linux sees

Or try dmesg

And yes I believe as of kernel-2.6.20 all devices are seen as sd- except floppy drives.

Thank you
Sounds good that [B]geometry (hd0)

Even better, with the knoppix installation, grub had the (hd0) to fd0
That's kind of amazing thing, with 3 harddrives.

Some of my observations, for what they're worth:

Grub's (legacy 0.97) hd0, hd1, hd2 have little to do with /dev/hd0 ,1 2 etc. or, as they now are /dev/sd0, 1, 2 etc.

If you have an older machine with a Zip drive the names can change under grub. On my machine the first IDE drive is hd0, the fakeraid card is hd1, unless the zip drive is active (with a cassette in it) on the second IDE channel, in which case the zip is hd1 and the fakeraid card is hd2. Obviously a grub menu booting off anything but hd0 is affected depending on whether or not there's a zip disk in the drive. The BIOS boot order settings don't change these things.

However, everybody comes up consistently under slackware, where the first IDE is /dev/hda, the zip is /dev/hdb (regardless of whether the drive has a cassette) and the fake raid card comes up /dev/hde and /dev/hdg.

Grub's device.map file may not list the devices the same if it is run from a floppy (native installation) or from the harddisk. So you can ask grub what it thinks the geometry is, but it may change its mind.

That's why I like to manually install things...