[plug] grub query in mixed sata / pata setup

[Denis Brown]

At 11:02 AM 2/08/2007, BillK wrote:
>Ive had a number of pata/sata systems now that come up with a different
>device order when booted into the installed system vice the installer.
>I suspect the installer can identify more devices than the boot kernel,
>or perhaps devices are recognised in a different order.
>
>If you can identify what the mapping is, you can manually modify the
>menu/boot sectors to match (i.e., the "root" coomand in both grub and
>for the kernel argument) - sometimes takes a few goes ...
>
>Yes, its a real pain!

Thanks, Bill.

I'll sit down with it again tomorrow :-(   I even did the "root (hd3,0)" 
again but without effect.    In fact though, since I can "cat" several 
files, it would seem that the root partition (hd3 in this case) is being 
correctly identified.

Will also re-visit the menu.lst file to see if it remains correct.   I 
noted it wanted to use the root=UUID= ident syntax for the hdd but I 
changed that to root=/dev/sdd1 without benefit.   Will also have a look at 
/etc/fstab

Denis