No. Completely going by the gentoo install handbook excerpt you pasted, the grub device/partition referencing is formatted like this: hd<drive #>,<partition #>, not hd<partition #>,<drive #>. So, hda1 would be hd0,0 NOT hd1,0 . hd1,0 would reference drive 2, partition 1 (/dev/hdb1).
On 5/24/05, AJ Spagnoletti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What ever drive the BIOS reports as the bootable drive may be considered > > drive C: by windows, I think. FWIW you have grub booting Gentoo on the > > first drive (hd0/hda), so why not change the boot order back and install > > grub on hda with an updated grub.conf. > > > I was looking at this as another option but I was concerned because im > not sure how to go about a grub install on a windows filesystem. I > dont want to mess up the windows installation I have to reinstall that > one enough as it is. I will look into installing grub there because it > seems the easiest solution. > > >here is your problem. hda1 is (hd0,0) in grubspeak, not (hd1,0) > > From the gentoo installation handbook: > "Hard drives count from zero rather than "a" and partitions start at > zero rather than one. Be aware too that with the hd devices, only hard > drives are counted, not atapi-ide devices such as cdrom players and > burners. Also, the same construct is used with scsi drives. (Normally > they get higher numbers than ide drives except when the bios is > configured to boot from scsi devices.) When you ask the BIOS to boot > from a different hard disk (for instance your primary slave), that > harddisk is seen as hd0." > > For my setup hda1 is equal to (hd1,0) > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
