From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:19:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dff0bfa04d1bc2bcf9200a1f1e38c50b@swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a186e7650603272130jbb807dbuee232fd661ac146e@mail.gmail.com>
> I think I get what you mean, but why would it swap the drive letters ?
> I mean if grub already found the right partition and started it, why
> would it then mess up while calling 9load ?
PCs are only meant to boot from the first hard drive.
Grub does some kind of magic that I don't fully understand
to convince the BIOS to pretend that the second hard drive
is the first and vice versa. If that doesn't get through to
pbs/pbslba or gets through the wrong way, then pbs/pbslba
could easily end up looking at the wrong disk for the 9fat
partition.
Russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-28 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-27 9:23 Laurent Malvert
2006-03-27 12:41 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-27 13:04 ` David.Eckhardt, Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-27 13:19 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-28 5:35 ` Laurent Malvert
2006-03-28 6:27 ` Laurent Malvert
2006-03-28 7:03 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-28 7:48 ` Laurent Malvert
2006-03-28 5:30 ` Laurent Malvert
2006-03-28 16:19 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2006-03-28 16:46 ` matt
2006-03-28 19:56 ` David Leimbach
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