On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 10:32, Feizhou wrote:
Well ... at least that is what I have experienced in the past ... maybe someone else who is smarter than me would care to comment / verify this behavior.
I won't say that I am smarter than Johnny but I will verify that this is the behaviour of grub and is so documented.
"Note that GRUB does not distinguish IDE from SCSI - it simply counts the drive numbers from zero, regardless of their type. Normally, any IDE drive number is less than any SCSI drive number, although that is not true if you change the boot sequence by swapping IDE and SCSI drives in your BIOS."
found at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Naming-convention.html
So having the default menu item load from the first disk works in this case.
Hmmm, maybe the machines where I've had odd behavior have been mixed ide/scsi with bios set to boot from the 1st scsi. But some of the newer ones make you specify in the bios setup the complete order of boot devices and don't like it if you swap in a different sized device of the same type without running the setup again.