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What is hd0 and sda/sdb in Linux?
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I'm completely new to Linux, and am using Ubuntu 10.04. I'm confused when to use what to represent which hard drive. I have 2 hard drives, the first one is identified as /dev/sda (in Disk Utility) and that's where I installed my old Windows 7 RC (unused). the second one is /dev/sdb where I installe…
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When GRUB probes devices it makes a device.map file, you can find this in the same directory as your grub.conf. It will look similar to this: You are free to modify this as you see fit any time. Read more here. UPDATE (Oct. 21, 2015) : This answer w…
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