[Techtalk] Fixed - Re: Server Boot Loader

[Billie Walsh]

On 01/30/2013 05:56 AM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Billie Walsh wrote:
>
>> I understand that in computerese "0" does not mean "nothing". It is 
>> the first device in whatever group. You said something about 
>> "ramdisk" a bit earlier and I assumed you were talking about the "rd" 
>> part of the string. When I first saw it I thought "RAID" or "Raid 
>> Disk". Anyway, I'm still a bit confused about the c0d0 part.
>
> /dev/rd is usually a ramdisk. However there seems to be confusion in 
> the linux driver world, with raid devices using it as well.
>
> c0d0 is controller 0, disk 0, no partition (the raw disk)
> c0d0p1 is controller 0, disk 0, partition 1.
>
> Grub needs to be installed on the raw disk, not a partition. Probably 
> the Ubuntu installer couldn't figure out for itself where to install 
> the boot loader, or perhaps it thought that it didn't need to. Only 
> examining /var/log/installer/syslog on the installed system would tell 
> us that.
>
> Cheers, Chris.

Ah. That sheds light on the darkness. With your help I learned a couple 
new things in the last couple days. I really appreciate your assistance.

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