(Summary: I had a problem with installing grub into the MBR. Two thoughtful replies set me straight)
At Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:46:34 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:02:08 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> grub> find /boot/grub/stage1 >> (hd0,2) >> >> As expected hd0 is the disk > > You should now run "root (hd0,2)" > >> 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? > > GRUB can't find its files because you haven't told it which partition > contains them. Only the stage1 goes into the MBR, along with a pointer to > the partition that contains everything else. At Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:47:44 +0200 Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Allan Gottlieb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [07.07.08 02:03]: >> 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) >> >> What is wrong? >> > maybe you just forgot: > > grub> root hd(hd0,2) > > to say grub where the stages should end up? Thank you sebastian and neil for your clear responses, which worked perfectly. allan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
