At Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:02:08 -0400 Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The newest update of grub from 0.97-r5 to 0.97-r6 contained the > > *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install > the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, > stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but > later stages will be the new version, which could > cause problems such as an unbootable system. > > Since this is only a change in the -r, I suspect that it is not > necessary to reinstall stage1, but I tried anyway and had trouble. > Since I thought I repeated steps that worked before, I am asking for > help/explanations. > > I run grub and then the following dialog. > > GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 7168K upper memory) > > [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first > word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB > lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] > > grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 > (hd0,2) > > As expected hd0 is the disk > > grub> setup (hd <TAB> > Possible disks are: hd0 hd1 > > Again confirming that hd0 is a valid disk (as is hd1, but that is an > external scsi that does not contain stage1) > > But now comes the problem. (I want grub in the MBR.) > > grub> setup (hd0) > > Error 12: Invalid device requested > > What is wrong? I have now downloaded the 2008.0 livecd. I booted from it and ran grub. Again the find returns (hd0,2) and alas the setup (hd0) returns the same error message. allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
