On Friday 30 September 2005 05:03 pm, Jason Martens wrote: > Hey all, > I kind of got myself into a pickle. I just installed Debian Sarge on > a new server, and I used the expert mode for installation. That all > went fine, and I created one large partition for LVM, and created a root > partition in a volume group, so right now my root partition is at > /dev/mapper/vg00-root. However, I didn't see an option to install grub > as the default boot loader in expert mode during the installation, so I > went ahead and installed lilo. This worked fine, and I was able to boot > the system without a problem. However, now I want to install grub again, > because I like it more. But when I run grub-install /dev/sda, I get the > following error message: > > hostname:~# grub-install --recheck /dev/sda > Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. > /dev/mapper/vg00-root does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. > > and it refuses to install. How can I fix this? > > Thanks, > > Jason Martens
I believe your /boot partition needs to be on a non LVM partition. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
