Package: installation-guide-i386 Severity: important grub-install chokes in /etc/mtab if there is a disk label. After some research, something suggested I cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab. I think this is where the problem was introduced first for me. There was an existing FC4 install with /boot on /dev/sda1 root on /dev/sda3 and swap on /dev/sda2. I stole the swap for debian, because it was 2G, and has just enough to work with durring the transition.
www:~# grub-install /dev/sda Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device. www:~# grep LABEL /etc/mtab LABEL=debian / ext3 rw 0 0 www:~# grub-install /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map. Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/sda www:~# grep " / " /etc/mtab /dev/sda2 / ext3 rw 0 0 Maybe stat(2) might be helpful for that instead? Thanks. Scott Edwards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
