2 hard disks

[B.J. McClure]

On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 09:51 +0000, norman wrote:
> < snip >
> 
> > title Windows XP professional
> > map (hd0) (hd1)
> > map (hd1) (hd0)
> > rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> > chainloader +1
> 
> I have been reading through this thread in light of more things I have
> been learning. Because one drive is IDE and the other SATA is it correct
> to refer to them both as 'hd' or should one be 'hd' and the other 'sd'?
> 
> Norman
> 
I think the short answer is : yes, no.  I run machines with sata drives and others with pata and my grub configuration is always "hdx".

Grub basically talks bios terminology while the OS distinguishes between
sdx and hdx.

B.J.