From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Grub Boot Problem From: "Russ Cox" Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:19:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 23ef97c6-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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