/dev/hda1 seems to be an NTFS filesystem (at least that's what fdisk says). I'm not sure about this, but may it have to be a Linux filesystem (e.g. ext3) in order for grub to work with it. I may be wrong about this, so take it with a grain of salt.
Also, it seems that all of your hard drives, (hda, hdb, and hdd) have a partition that is marked as a boot partition. I believe that you can have only one boot partition, even if you have multiple drives. At least that is how it is on my system. Hope this helps, Malcolm < mlalkaka [at] gmail.com > ----------------------------------------- On 9/25/05, Jeremy Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need help figuring out what is going on with my > Debian / GRUB bootloader. Because of some Windoze > issues, I had to re-install XP on my machine. It > discarded the grub loader and now you can only boot to > XP from hda1. I consulted with another Debian user who > said to simply run 'grub-install /dev/hda1' off of a > live CD. I tried that with hda, hda1, and hdb2 (debian > partition) just to be sure, and it gave the same error > every time. Here is an example of the error it gave. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/hdb2/sbin # grub-install /dev/hda1 > > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take > > a long time. > > Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a > > block device. > > fdisk -l returns the following when run from the live > CD: > > Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 2433 19543041 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 2434 4865 19535040 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 2434 3197 6136798+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 3198 3337 1124518+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda7 3338 4865 12273628+ 83 Linux > > Disk /dev/hdb: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7476 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdb1 1 3188 25607578+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hdb2 * 3189 7298 33013575 83 Linux > /dev/hdb3 7299 7476 1429785 5 Extended > /dev/hdb5 7299 7476 1429753+ 82 Linux swap > > Disk /dev/hdd: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdd1 * 1 3649 29310561 83 Linux > > Any help is appreciated.
