Adrian Sevcenco wrote: > On 08/23/12 17:41, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> Adrian Sevcenco wrote: >>> On 08/23/12 15:01, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: >> <snip> >>> I dont know about root(hd0,0) .. i have the grub and / installed on an >>> disk which by system is recognized as /dev/sdc and in grub.conf i have >>> hd(2,msdos1) >>> >> Ok... to follow myself up, I started looking. There is zero indication >> in any manpage about the syntax you use. After doing some googling, I >> finally found >> <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Device-syntax>, and >> geez, the Gnu documentation is *dreadful* - why isn't there a syntax >> description for the root line of a grub entry? Then I found the above, >> which is *not* with the root directive, and they give examples including >> msdos1, msdos5, but with no explanation of what those names are - >> labels? the first and fifth partitions that are msdos format? >> >> As I said in my previous post, I've never seen anything like that - it's >> always >> root (hdx,y). > err, sorry that was my mistake ... i copy pasted from wrong terminal > (from my desktop fedora 16 grub 2 instead from the centos server where i > look initially) Oh, no problem. I can't see how you could *possibly* have copied from the wrong term (says the guy with seven open for use, sudo -s on three, and one for later use for streaming media....) > > so, to wrap things up: on my centos 5 storage i have root (hd0,0) > that stayed the same no matter how many block devices i added or removed > from my hardware card... but in fstab i use only UUIDs Yup, what we've got. As I said, though, I hate UUIDs - for any non-RAIDed drives, we *always* label them, indicative of where they mount. That way, we all know what's expected, where a UUID tells you nothing of what it is. mark