I just did an install onto a machine with a single internal IDE hard drive. hda1 is Win2K (NTFS), hda2 is swap, hda3 is Gentoo root (ext3).
I was following the "quick install" doc, and everything went fine until I got to the section on installing grub. After emerging grub, the "root" command failed: grub> root (hd0,2) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist I tried hd0,hd1,hd2,hd3 with various paritions from 0 to 2 and always got an Error 21. The drive is recognized correctly by the BIOS, and Win2K boots and runs fine. I rebooted and chroot'ed several times and always got Error 21. So, I downloaded a Grub CD from http://www.supergrubdisk.org/. The grub on the CD recognized the disk and all partitions correctly and installed just fine using the normal procedure: root (hd0,2) setup (hd0) I rebooted, and everything works great. Any ideas on why grub couldn't see any hard drives when it was run from the 2008.0 minimal install CD's chroot'ed environment? I've done dozens of Gentoo installs, and I've never seen this problem before. -- Grant
