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   root to Pascal Hambourg   
   Re: Grub problem   
   20 Aug 21 21:03:04   
   
   From: NoEMail@home.org   
      
   Pascal Hambourg  wrote:   
   > Le 19/08/2021 ?? 08:10, root a ??crit??:   
   >> Grub seems to confuse two drives in my system.   
   >   
   > No, it does't. GRUB gets drive numbers from the firmware (BIOS/UEFI).   
   > Drive number assigned by the firmware are arbitrary, so do not rely on   
   > them. The only constant seems to be that the boot drive in BIOS mode is   
   > always (hd0).   
   >   
   > /dev/sd* names have nothing to do with firmware drive numbers, but they   
   > are not reliably persistent. Do not rely on them either.   
      
   Thanks for responding.   
      
   The bios reports drive numbers in the order of what we call   
   sda,sdb,sdc...  I tried to add a drive map to grub but   
   it did not change the order.   
      
   When I get the grub menu, I can type c to get a shell   
   and do ls to see what the drives are.   
      
   The ordering is   
   hd0 sda   
   hd1 sdc   
   hd2 sdb   
      
   I can edit an entry and then the boot works.   
      
   It comes out this way even if I use the blockID   
      
   I know this sounds crazy.   
      
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