[NTLUG:Discuss] Interesting kernel panic

[Bob Netherton]

>  Apparently 
> GRUB's understanding of (hd0) 

That would be BIOS device 0x80 - the first disk that it finds.  BIOSes
will vary greatly on this point, but many will go ahead and declare the
slave device on IDE controller 0 as 0x80.

> and the kernel's understanding of /dev/hda 
> are different because GRUB loaded the kernel.

And that makes for a very interesting day :-)


Bob