Re: Obtaining a device/partition list

[David Balazic]

Hal Wine wrote:
> 
> Given a number of commands in the Grub shell, which require specifying
> devices or partitions, I expect to find a couple of commands for
> displaying devices and partitions, but I don't.
> 
> except by trial and error, is there any way to find a list of the
> currently active devices?
> 
> How about for partitions on a drive?
> 
> If there aren't those commands, can someone recommend a "how to" on
> figuring out which bios device is which (especially for scsi chains off
> multiple scsi cards -- how are they ordered).
> 
> Thanks,
> --Hal
> 
> P.S. the primary context is (a) using grub as a mini rescue disk, and
> (b) talking someone through grub changes over the phone.

"geometry (hd0)" will print the partitions on hd0
very intuitive ...

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David Balazic
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