From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 23:51:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5712916A40F for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 23:51:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06E743C9D for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 23:50:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dthomas53@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so1481778nfc for ; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:51:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=jDc2roZ6ut06x677/Rn5oqLCnqeulsPnBdnCHlniquxX+l2xLzD8fuKML7QLa//Ye8BqnKtgEdEO8xm75CSp/mWsVkiENCMugE4XTOs9DJYfzsQDgYL5WJ9+180YOq9I6NDwuWmDow8HlFt9wKS2Q3RBw6UcMoZRL4EyKfiDTtc= Received: by 10.78.146.11 with SMTP id t11mr486804hud.1165708307298; Sat, 09 Dec 2006 15:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.156.2 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 15:51:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 18:51:47 -0500 From: "David Stanford" To: "Garrett Cooper" In-Reply-To: <457B417E.9030506@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200612082010.42744.news@budostore.de> <200612090958.03581.news@budostore.de> <200612092204.53800.news@budostore.de> <457B417E.9030506@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuration of Grub? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:51:50 -0000 > Incorrect. If you installed the filesystem on ad3s1, it should be: > > root (hd3,0,a) Thank you, I stand corrected. Not sure what I was thinking there... :) Many people goof up GRUB by accident because it's numbering system is > zero-based and linux-like to a certain extent, so /dev/hda in Linux > translates to hd0 in GRUB, which is also ad0 in FreeBSD. This now leads me to a thought: does Grub count only *existing* hard drives on your system or does it count the hard drive channels on your system? In this case, Karl says he has installed FreeBSD on ad3, which makes me think he has installed on a second SATA drive (more likely that on a fourth hard drive I would think), and FreeBSD has counted two IDE channels as ad0 and ad1, and two SATA channels as ad2 and ad3. If this is the case, and Grub counts only the *existing* drives on his system, then he would have to use (hd1,0,a), no? This would also explain the "disk is not existing" error he was recieving. I'd be interested in hearing thoughts (or facts ;) on this as I hate being left confused... :) -David -- [root@fbsd ~]# fortune Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion.