Re: wrong hdX designation in grub.cfg

[Chris Murphy]

On Jan 12, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Andrey Borzenkov <address@hidden> wrote:

> В Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:59:46 -0700
> Chris Murphy <address@hidden> пишет:
> 
>> A normally working grub.cfg contains this entry:
>> 
>>        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt4 
>> --hint-efi=hd0,gpt4 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt4  
>> d7bc9d0e-7706-44f9-b1a7-ff24b7c360a7
>> 
>> hd0,gpt4 seems to be wrong.
> 
> It is just a hint anyway.
> 
>> At a grub prompt, there is one hd0 entry, and multiple hd1,gptY
>> entries. These correspond to the partitionless Firewire drive, and the
>> internal drive respectively. It seems like the firmware presents the
>> Firewire drive to grub first and therefore is hd0 in grub. But once
>> booted to linux, the internal drive ends up being treated as hd0 by
>> grub-mkconfig.
>> 
>> Firmware bug? Or grub bug?
>> 
> 
> Neither. Nobody ever said firmware would enumerate devices in the same
> order as kernel. This is exactly why grub2 stopped relying on it and is
> using search instead.

Fair enough. Is the most important reference the fs UUID? Would that alone 
work, or do the hints make finding it by UUID faster?

> 
> Is it BIOS or UEFI system?

Technically neither, it's a Mac. So it's in some Apple zombie land between 
Intel EFI and UEFI.

Chris Murphy