Bug#77138: grub: The documentation doesn't describe the way grub counts devices

[hilliard]

Package: grub
Version: 0.5.96.1
Severity: normal

     The grub info file says:

|      (hd0,1)
| 
|    Here, `hd' means it is a hard disk drive. The first integer `0'
| indicates the drive number, that is, the first hard disk, while the
| second integer, `1', indicates the partition number (or the PC slice
| number in the BSD terminology). Once again, please note that the
| partition numbers are counted from _zero_, not from one. 

     This does not adequately describe the way grub counts these
devices.  On my machine, grub counts the first drive on the first
controller, then the first drive on the second controller, then the
second drive on the first controller, etc.

     Therefore the following table describes the mapping of drives on
my machine.

          /dev/hda          (hd0)
          /dev/hdb          (hd2)
          /dev/hdc          (hd1)

     This is counter-intuitive, and is not adequately explained in the
documentation.

Bob
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-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux bobspc 2.2.14 #1 Fri Apr 7 20:44:23 EDT 2000 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6          2.1.94-3       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libncurses5    5.0-7          Shared libraries for terminal handling