device naming peculiarity

[Andrey R. Urazov]

Hello,

it seems that there is a bug in grub but I'm not sure.
I had two operating systems on my PC: Windows and GNU/Linux, and, of
course, GRUB is my boot manager. The 4
partitions located at the beginning of my hard drive contained FAT
file systems and at the end of the disk there were (and is) a bunch of
partitions with Ext3 file systems and one linux swap partition. I've
converted the first partition to NTFS and this changed nothing. GRUB was
successful in loading both Windows and GNU/Linux. Then from the
partition manager in Windows 2000 I deleted two FAT partitions. And as I
expected my linux root partition moved from /dev/hda11 to /dev/hda9.
While GRUB behaved in a peculiar way instead of addressing the partition
as (hd0,8) (previously it was (hd0,10)) it now names it (hd0,9).

Thus, the following does not work:

root (hd0,8)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz

Instead I have to use a workaround:

kernel (hd0,9) root=/dev/hda9

Is that really a bug or maybe a feature?

                        Yours sincerely, Andrey Urazov
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Fill what's empty, empty what's full, scratch where it itches.
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Saturday, March 23, 2002, 08:34:58 PM +0600 - Andrey R. Urazov 
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