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As it happens, I've just downloaded Marauding Marmoset 7.3333 & had a play with the liveCD...

No sign of a device.map file anywhere, although grub has to generate one when installing.

Quote:When you specify the option --device-map, the grub shell creates the device map file automatically unless it already exists. The file name /boot/grub/device.map is preferred.
If the device map file exists, the grub shell reads it to map BIOS drives to OS devices. This file consists of lines like this:
device file
device is a drive specified in the GRUB syntax, and file is an OS file, which is normally a device file.
The reason why the grub shell gives you the device map file is that it cannot guess the map between BIOS drives and OS devices correctly in some environments. For example, if you exchange the boot sequence between IDE and SCSI in your BIOS, it gets the order wrong.

Anyway, the liveCD nearly gave me a dicky fit, as the disk manager thingy told me it was using my PC-BSD partition for tmpfs! Luckily it wasn't actually.

I may try installing the KDE version to see how everything works...

To hell with the device.map......whats the best way to clean Tetley off a keyboard??